Read the primary source rather than the write-up and the two do not agree, so here is what is actually in it.
This is the one where the stakes are high and the answer is simple: tell the anaesthetist. Delayed gastric emptying means a stomach that is not empty after a standard fast, and that is an aspiration risk under anaesthesia. Current guidance is broadly to hold weekly agents for about a week before an elective procedure and daily agents for a day, but the decision belongs to the anaesthetic team and they can only make it if they know.
Where I think it is weakest: the population was selected and supported in ways a real cohort is not, so I would read the effect size as a ceiling rather than an expectation.
The bit I cannot resolve on my own is how long before a procedure people were told to hold, and whether the interval differs between the weekly and daily agents. I would rather have one careful answer than five confident ones.
Figures above are from the primary publication rather than the press summary. If a number here disagrees with one you have, post yours and we will work out which of us is reading a secondary source.
HealthEcon_DC said:This is the one where the stakes are high and the answer is simple: tell the anaesthetist.
Agreed, and coverage criteria are plan-specific rather than insurer-specific. Two people with the same insurer and different employers have different rules, which is why "my insurer covers it" is not transferable information.
HealthEcon_DC said:This is the one where the stakes are high and the answer is simple: tell the anaesthetist.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. Guidance here is not settled and varies by institution, so quoting one society's interval as the rule is misleading. The invariant part is disclosure, not the number of days.
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JessicaH_TX said:Agreed, and coverage criteria are plan-specific rather than insurer-specific.
Can confirm. Same sequence, different timescale.