Is perioperative fasting associated with complications, length of hospital stay and mortality among gastric and colorectal cancer patients? A cohort study.

Isabel Pinto Amorim das Virgens Ana Lúcia Miranda de Carvalho Yasmin Guerreiro Nagashima Flavia Moraes Silva Ana Paula Trussardi Fayh

Published in: Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina (2021)

Prolonged perioperative fasting, especially in the postoperative period, was observed in a sample of patients with gastric and colorectal cancer, and this was an independent predictor of LOS.

Keyphrases

patients undergoing
end stage renal disease
cardiac surgery
blood glucose
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
insulin resistance
chronic kidney disease
risk factors
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prognostic factors
emergency department
type diabetes
metabolic syndrome
acute kidney injury
blood pressure
weight loss
skeletal muscle