# OnCo record idea-pu-shorter-fasting-before-surgery (idea). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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<https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-pu-shorter-fasting-before-surgery/>
  a schema:CreativeWork ;
  onco:kind "idea" ;
  schema:identifier "idea-pu-shorter-fasting-before-surgery" ;
  schema:name "Clear drinks until two hours before an operation, rather than nothing from midnight"@en ;
  schema:description "Anaesthetic guidelines since at least 2011 say adults can drink clear fluids up to two hours before planned surgery and eat up to six hours before. In a study of 50 women having breast cancer surgery published in 2026, the average fast was 15 hours from food and 12 hours from fluids."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-pu-shorter-fasting-before-surgery/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-10-20"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1097/EJA.0b013e3283495ba1>, <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-00767-z>, <https://doi.org/10.1186/s12893-025-03449-9>, <https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-014-2582-3>, <https://doi.org/10.1097/SLA.0000000000001029> ;
  onco:tag "protocol-upgrade", "upgrade:proven-unevenly-used", "evidence:moderate" ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-pu-enhanced-recovery-with-measured-compliance/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/surgery/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/eras-perioperative-nutrition/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/oncology-nutrition/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-knowledge-diffusion/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-toxicity-qol/> .