Enhanced Recovery After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy - a Randomised Controlled Trial

University of Auckland, New Zealand

Status: Completed

Conditions: Morbid Obesity

Treatments: Other: Enhanced Recovery After Surgey for Sleeve Gastrectomy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01303809

BariatricFastTrack

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators wish to standardise and optimise perioperative care for consecutive patients undergoing laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy for weight loss. The investigators will compare patients under a standardised perioperative care program to patients who undergo routine perioperative in our hospital and determine whether patients who had optimised perioperative care went home earlier and had fewer complications.

Enrollment: 106 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients undergoing laparascopic sleeve gastrectomy for weight loss by surgeons who have agreed to participate in the study
• Surgery occurs at Manukau Surgery Centre

Exclusion criteria

• Surgery not occuring in Manukau Superclinic

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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106 participants in 2 patient groups

ERAS

Active Comparator group

Description:

The perioperative management of the patients in this arm will be according to a fast-track protocol designed by the investigators. The preoperative component of this program is the same as routine practice. Intraoperative and postoperative components which are different to routine practice are as described in the intervention section. This protocol is based on current literature regarding Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS).

Treatment:

Other: Enhanced Recovery After Surgey for Sleeve Gastrectomy

non ERAS

No Intervention group

Description:

The perioperative management of patients in this arm will be according to routine practice currently implemented at our institution.