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Enhanced Recovery After Surgery in Major Intrabdominal Procedures.

NCT01400711 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 54

Last updated 2011-07-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programs have been introduced with aims of attenuating the stress response to surgery and enabling rapid recovery. There is strong evidence of the usefulness of the ERAS programs in patients undergoing colorectal surgery in terms of significantly reduced postoperative complications and shorter length of hospital stay, compared to the patients of traditional treatment. However, few studies exist about the implication of ERAS programs in major upper abdominal surgery patients.

The aim of this study was to compare morbidity, mortality and length of stay in patients undergoing major intrabdominal surgery, including upper and lower gastrointestinal, receiving either conventional postoperative care or an ERAS program.

Conditions

  • Complication of Surgical and Medical Care.

Interventions

OTHER

ERAS perioperative care

Patient's education before surgery, early mobilization and oral feeding after surgery, no opioids analgesics.

OTHER

Traditional

Nasogastric tube until bowel function, late oral eating, opioid analgesics.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • St. Andrew's General Hospital, Patras, Greece

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
89 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-10-31
Primary Completion
2011-03-31
Completion
2011-04-30

Countries

  • Greece

Study Locations

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