NUR 320 · Week 3 · NR-MS-117
Aspiration during anesthesia
The fast is a proxy for an empty stomach. It is performed for roughly twice as long as any guideline asks, it does real harm while it is happening, and a very common new class of drug has quietly broken the assumption it rests on.
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