If you were in a car crash and had been eating all day, how is that different from a routine surgery where you weren’t allowed to eat for a certain amount of time before surgery?
Edit: based on some answers, perhaps I should clarify obviously I understand they have to perform surgery in an emergency. My question is more what do they do in an emergency when you haven’t fasted.
Thanks to those with real answers, I never knew about the special tube that could be used. That’s pretty cool.
I’m having surgery tomorrow and can’t eat so was just wondering how they handle food in the stomach during an emergency surgery situation.
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To avoid unnecessary risk during procedures, surgical staff like to control every factor they can.
For example, they like to ensure you’re breathing oxygen, not breakfast.
They’ll take the chance if someone will die without immediate surgery, but if there’s any way it can wait 8hrs, they’ll do it when the patient has an empty stomach.
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