Q & A: Is a Ban on Drinking Water Hours Before Surgery Necessary?

Monday, November 28, 2011 - 16:20 in Health & Medicine

The well-known rule that a preoperative patient should have “nothing by mouth after midnight” was not based on scientific evidence, and many medical organizations now have more flexible guidelines.

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