The Effect of Postoperative Referred Pain in the Left Shoulder on Short-term Outcomes for Laparoscopic Gastrectomy

Fujian Medical University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Stomach Neoplasms

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03482609

FujianMU

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to explore the effect of postoperative referred pain in the left shoulder on short-term outcomes for laparoscopic gastrectomy

Full description

A prospective cohort study will be performed to explore the effect of postoperative referred pain in the left shoulder on short-term outcomes for laparoscopic（including robot assisted laparoscopic surgery） gastrectomy .The evaluation parameters are overall postoperative morbidity rates,perioperative clinical efficacy and 3-year survival and recurrence rates.

Enrollment: 400 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age from 18 to 75 years
• Primary gastric adenocarcinoma (papillary, tubular, mucinous, signet ring cell, or poorly differentiated) confirmed pathologically by endoscopic biopsy
• cT1-4a, N0-3, M0 at preoperative evaluation according to the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Cancer Staging Manual Seventh Edition
• No distant metastasis is observed. And the spleen, pancreas or other adjacent organs are not involved by the tumor.
• Performance status of 0 or 1 on Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group scale (ECOG)
• American Society of Anesthesiology score (ASA) class I, II, or III
• Written informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• patients whose previous history of chronic shoulder pain
• Women during pregnancy or breast-feeding
• Severe mental disorder
• History of previous upper abdominal surgery (except laparoscopic cholecystectomy)
• History of previous gastrectomy, endoscopic mucosal resection or endoscopic submucosal dissection
• Enlarged or bulky regional lymph node envelop important vessels
• History of other malignant disease within past five years
• History of previous neoadjuvant chemotherapy or radiotherapy
• History of unstable angina or myocardial infarction within past six months
• History of cerebrovascular accident within past six months
• History of continuous systematic administration of corticosteroids within one month
• Requirement of simultaneous surgery for other disease
• Emergency surgery due to complication (bleeding, obstruction or perforation) caused by gastric cancer
• FEV1<50% of predicted values
• Difficulty of understanding V A S(Visual Analogues Score).