Preoperative Gastric Emptying Effects of Anxiety and Oral Carbohydrate Administration

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Authors

Jonas Nygren · Karolinska University Hospital

Anders Thorell

Hans Jacobsson · Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Physics

Stig Larsson · Karolinska University Hospital

Per-Olof Scchnell · Karolinska University Hospital

Lotta Hylén

Olle Ljungqvist

Abstract

Preoperative anxiety does not prolong gastric emptying. The stomach had been emptied 90 minutes after ingestion of both the carbohydrate-rick drink and water, thereby indicating the possibility of allowing an intake of iso-osmolar carbohydrate-rich fluids before surgery.

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Published in: Annals of Surgery

Volume 222, Issue 6, pp. 728-734

DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199512000-00006

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