Fasting up to 1 hour before a cardiac implantable electronic device procedure was more beneficial than fasting up to six hours before, in terms of well-being and safety, according to study results published in Europace.
“The summed preprocedural well-being score was significantly lower for the non-fasting group, which reflects more well-being in this group, which was mainly driven by significantly lower scores for hunger and tiredness in the non-fasting group,” Kerstin Bode, MD, MSc, of the department of electrophysiology at the Heart Center Leipzig at University of Leipzig in