Enhanced Recovery in Esophageal Surgery

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain

Status: Completed

Conditions: ERAS Protocol, Esophagectomy

Treatments: Procedure: Enhanced recovery program

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05856253

2023/23Jan/038

Details and patient eligibility

About

Esophageal surgery remains the main treatment for esophageal cancer. Despite constant improvements, morbidity of esophagectomy remains high. For several years, enhanced rehabilitation programs have been used to reduce the impact of surgery on the patients to support a faster recovery. This study analyses the first results of newly implemented enhanced program after esophagectomy within the framework of an academic center.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All consecutive esophagectomy

Exclusion criteria

• Contraindication for surgery according to the WHO physical status of IV, emergency surgery, mental illness and patient's refusal.

Trial design

40 participants in 2 patient groups

ERAS group

Treatment:

Procedure: Enhanced recovery program

Control group