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

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Duration of paralytic ileus (A) and food intolerance (B) depending on infusion of either < 2 L or ≥ 2 L of Ringer’s lactate during surgery and whether postoperative complications developed. (C) The length of hospital stay increased with the number of complications (ANOVA P < 0.002). Data are the mean, and the error bars are the standard deviation. The number of patients in each group is indicated in red.

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