Starvation before surgery: is our practice based on evidence?
The misery articulated by patients denied their morning ‘cuppa’ before coming to hospital for surgery is long-established and apparently ineradicable. A recent (February 2016) small audit of 44 adult patients admitted for elective surgery in five specialties in Oxford found that they had been denied...
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Oxford University Press
2017
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