Podcasts Health & Fitness Medicine The AJN Podcast Interview with Jeannette Crenshaw, author of CE article, Preoperative Fasting: Will the Evidence Ever Be Put into Practice (October, 2011)

Interview with Jeannette Crenshaw, author of CE article, Preoperative Fasting: Will the Evidence Ever Be Put into Practice (October, 2011)

Published: Sept. 28, 2011, 8:30 p.m.

b'Editor-in-chief, Shawn Kennedy interviews Jeannette Crenshaw about her work exploring the evidence for NOT supporting NPO After Midnight as a routine preoperative practice. She explains that it\\u2019s not just about allowing clear fluids because it\\u2019s safe, but \\u201cbecause it\\u2019s safer.\\u201d European physician and nursing societies all endorse recommendations for allowing carbohydrate-rich clear liquids \\u2013 as well as other clear liquids \\u2013 two to three hours before surgery, so why does U.S. practice lag behind?'