Coffee and Reduced Time to First Flatus

• Reduction of postoperative ileus in gastrointestinal surgery: systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2025-03
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 4,647
  • Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract 29(3)
  • • Doris Sarmiento-Altamirano
    • Daniel Arce-Jara
    • Pablo Balarezo-Guerrero
    • Rafael Valdivieso-Espinoza

  • PubMed: 39788451
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.gassur.2025.101960

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Time to First Flatus

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  The reduction in time to passage of the first flatus was -1.90 h (95% CI, -8.28 to 4.48; P =.56) for coffee.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  not specified