Gastric emptying of three liquid oral pr
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Dileep N. Lobo; Paul O. Hendry; Gabriel Rodrigues; Luca Marciani; John J. Totman
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Article
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2009
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Background & aims Preoperative starvation has many undesirable effects but the minimum length of fasting is limited by gastric emptying, which may be dependent on nutrient content, viscosity and osmolarity of the feed. We compared the gastric emptying of two types of preoperative metabolic precondit