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

1 Department of Anaesthesia, the first Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China

2 Department of Anaesthesia Shaoxing People’s Hospital, Shaoxing, People’s Republic of China

3 Department Colorectal Surgery, Shaoxing People’s Hospital, Shaoxing, People’s Republic of China

4 Research Unit, Södertälje Hospital, and the Section for Anaesthesia, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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