Quality of Life After Routine Nasogastric Decompression After Distal Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer Patients

Wakayama Medical University

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Gastric Cancer

Treatments: Device: nasogastric tube; Device: without nasogastric tube

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00738478

WMC-RCTGastric01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to evaluate whether distal gastrectomy without post-operative nasogastric decompression tube is better in terms of quality of life.

Full description

Nasogastric decompression tube is an intra-operative routine in most of the time to facilitate exposure of operative field during elective distal gastrectomy, however, whether it should be retained post-operatively is controversial. Nasogastric decompression tube helps to drain the gastric remnant in case there is edema around the gastrojejunostomy, ileus and delayed gastric emptying, which can theoretically relieve nausea and abdominal distension. However, nasogastric intubation could cause patients discomfort; also it has been shown that it would cause gastroesophageal reflux which may be associated with pulmonary complication.

Enrollment: 180 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• on the basis of whether distal gastrectomy was anticipated at WMUH for gastric cancer.

Exclusion criteria

• patients who were diagnosed inadequacy for this study by a physician.
• patients without an informed consent.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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180 participants in 2 patient groups

A

Experimental group

Description:

Arm A: with nasogastric tube

Treatment:

Device: nasogastric tube

B

Active Comparator group

Description:

Arm B: without nasogastric tube

Treatment:

Device: without nasogastric tube