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- Title
Fasting of less than eight hours in urgent and emergency surgeries versus complication.
- Authors
Carvalho Martins, Adelita de Jesus; de Souza Serva, Cristiane Alves; da Fonseca, Tatiane Helena; de Lima Martins, Maria Joana; de Brito Poveda, Vanessa
- Abstract
Objective: to verify the occurrence of intraoperative and postoperative complications in patients undergoing urgent and emergency surgical procedures between January and December 2012, with fasting time of less than 8 hours. Method: a quantitative study was conducted, of the retrospective cohort type, through the analysis of medical records. Results: we included 181 records of patients undergoing surgical procedures with average duration of 59.4 minutes. Fractures correction surgeries stood out, totalling 32% of cases. We observed complications in 36 patients (19.9%), vomiting being the most prevalent (47.2%); followed by nausea (16.7%); need for blood transfusion (13.9%); surgical site infection (11.1%); and death (11.1%). The average fasting time was 133.5 minutes. The fasting time showed no statistically significant correlation with the complications investigated. Conclusion: intraoperative and postoperative complications were associated with the clinical conditions of the patients and not with the fasting time.
- Subjects
EMERGENCY medical services; FASTING; FISHER exact test; SURGICAL complications; OPERATIVE surgery; TIME; QUALITATIVE research; RETROSPECTIVE studies; MANN Whitney U Test
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2016, Vol 69, Issue 4, p665
- ISSN
0034-7167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0034-7167.2016690414i