Prevention of Constipation: Systematic Nursing Interventions to Reduce Postoperative Constipation After Thoracic Surgery

Rigshospitalet

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postoperative Constipation

Treatments: Procedure: Degree of constipation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00364169

KF 01 308399

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to reduce the incidence of postoperative constipation by systematic nurse assessment, interventions and evaluation, in the first month after thoracic surgery.

Enrollment: 58 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients admitted for planned lung surgery
• Patients are capable
• Able to talk and understand Danish

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with colostomy and / or ileostomy
• Neurological or abdominal diseases
• Feed through a tube

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)