Enhanced Recovery After Surgery in Major Intrabdominal Procedures.

St. Andrew's General Hospital, Patras, Greece

Status: Completed

Conditions: Complication of Surgical and Medical Care.

Treatments: Other: Traditional; Other: ERAS perioperative care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01400711

1VA

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 54 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 89 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Elective surgery
• ASA grade < 4

Exclusion criteria

• Emergency surgery
• ASA grade > 3

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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54 participants in 2 patient groups

ERAS patients

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients planned to undergoing major intrabdominal surgery, following the ERAS perioperative care.

Treatment:

Other: ERAS perioperative care

Control patients

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients planned to undergo major intrabdominal surgery, following the conventional perioperative care.

Treatment:

Other: Traditional