Fig. 2From: Normal gastric emptying time of a carbohydrate-rich drink in elderly patients with acute hip fracture: a pilot studyIndividual gastric emptying profiles of nine elderly women with acute hip fracture. In all patients the gastric emptying curve fulfilled requirements of a third-order polynomial sigmoid curve by which gastric lag phase, half-emptying times and complete emptying were calculated (see Table 1)Back to article page