Shorter preoperative fluid fasts reduce postoperative emesis

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Editor—We support the recommendations on preoperative fasting offered by S M Greenfield and colleagues.1 Not only are fasting times far longer even than is traditionally thought necessary but reducing the fluid fast, as they advocate, seems to benefit patients after anaesthesia too. We audited fasting times and postoperative emesis in inpatients having elective gynaecological surgery after some members of our department became concerned that shortening the preoperative fluid fast would make postoperative emesis more likely. Data were collected …

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