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despite overwhelming evidence favour relaxed fasting protocol traditional practice keeping patients nil per oral midnight day surgery elective operations still appears hold sway many practices prospective study evaluate pattern preoperative fasting among patients undergoing elective general surgical operations department surgery obafemi awolowo university teaching hospitals complex ileife nigeria conducted june december 2020 data obtained analysed using ibm spss statistics windows version 24 presented descriptive statistics form frequencies percentages mean prescribed fasting duration 112 24 hours mean actual fasting duration 176 131 hours significantly longer mean prescribed fasting duration p 0001 eightynine percent patients fasted 12 hours surgical operations bowel surgeries longest actual fasting duration 349 275 hours ventral hernia repairs superficial mass excisions shortest duration 135 07 hours surgeries performed noon longest actual fasting duration compared performed noon 215 187 hours vs 156 86 hours ninety percent respondents reported hunger score of4 fasting preoperative fasting duration surgical unit remains long conventional potential implications practice patients physiological status surgical outcomes strong enough motivate change