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Surgery can be delayed, medications can be given to help reduce the acidity and volume of stomach contents, or maneuvers may be employed to protect from aspiration, for example placing a cuffed endotracheal tube into the trachea.y placing a patient on NPO status, there will be nothing to aspirate because any food would have been absorbed into the small intestines by that time of surgery 6-8 hrs later. + 23 others found this useful.
7 Reasons to Get Your Back Pain and Neck Pain Diagnosed by an Independent Neurologist Before Seeing a Surgeon. This article takes for granted that you are already aware what a slippery slope spinal surgery for back pain and neck pain can be. Put concisely, one bad thing leads to another. Surgery is not the âfinal answerâ for back and neck pain.