Ringer's lactate, but not hydroxyethyl starch, prolongs the food intolerance time after major abdominal surgery; an open-labelled clinical trial.

A smaller fraction of these patients developed one or several postoperative complications (13.6% versus 28.8%), but this difference did not reach statistical significance ( P = 0.14).

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In fact, the ROC curve revealed a clear trend toward a prolongation of the food intolerance time in response to as little as ≥ 1.25 L of Ringer’s lactate (Figure 2 A).

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