Fasting of less than eight hours in urgent and emergency surgeries versus complication - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

Fasting of less than eight hours in urgent and emergency surgeries versus complication |

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.