Rehabilitation Following Laparoscopic Colonic Surgery

Aarhus University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Colonic Cancer; Postoperative Care; Fatigue

Treatments: Procedure: Laparoscopic colonic surgery

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00938210

MBJ-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The standard procedure for treating colonic cancer is changing from open surgery to laparoscopic surgery. Following open colonic surgery patients are fatigued and loss body mass and have a reduction in physical function, but the investigators do not know if this is also the case following laparoscopic surgery.

This study examines how fatigue, quality of life, physical function, and body composition changes following laparoscopic colonic surgery.

Patients are examined preoperatively and postoperative day 10 and 30.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• elective colonic cancer surgery
• hemicolectomy or sigmoid resection
• informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• disseminated cancer
• contraindications for laparoscopic surgery
• dementia or serious psychiatric disease
• diseases or other aspects that prohibit participation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 1 patient group

Laparoscopic surgery

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients undergoing laparoscopic colonic surgery are compared with a historical cohort of patients undergoing similar open colonic surgery (right hemicolectomy and sigmoid resections).

Treatment:

Procedure: Laparoscopic colonic surgery