Gum Chewing After Gynecologic Laparoscopy

Klinikum Klagenfurt am Wörthersee

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postoperative Care

Treatments: Behavioral: gum chewing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01549353

A 02/10

Details and patient eligibility

About

Gum chewing has been reported to stimulate bowel motility after open surgery, such as cesarean section and other abdominal surgeries. In general, after laparoscopic surgery problems with reduced bowel motility are not as common as after open surgery. In this study the investigators test the hypothesis that gum chewing is enhancing rapid return of bowel motility after gynecologic laparoscopic surgery. Further the investigators study patient satisfaction and potential side effects of postoperative gum chewing.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all gynecologic laparoscopic surgery
• normal level of CA 125 postmenopausal

Exclusion criteria

• loose teeth
• chronic obstipation
• laparotomy
• operations longer then 3 h

Trial design

200 participants in 1 patient group

chewing gum

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: gum chewing