An enhanced recovery program has been developed to provide for colon cancer patients faster and more personalized postoperative treatment. Most of the previous studies have showed that the efficacy of the enhanced recovery program on both subjective and objective physical recovery of patients. However, such studies are rarely conducted in South Korea. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of a postoperative enhanced recovery program in patients who underwent laparoscopic colon cancer surgery at a tertiary hospital in Korea.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
180
Enhanced recovery program day-1: no mechanical bowel preparation, intake permit until 6 hrs before operation day0: operation, postoperative fluid therapy, antibiotics day1: liquid diet, early ambulation, removal of foley catheterization day2-3: soft diet day 4-5: discharge
Gyu seog Choi
Daegu, South Korea
Length of hospital stay
Duration of hospital stay from the date of operation to the date when a patient meets the following "discharge criteria". Discharge criteria: * Tolerance of consecutive 3 soft diet * Recovery of bowel function (without PONV) * No necessity of intravenous analgesics * Stable vital sign (afebrile)
Time frame: 30 days post-operatively
Actual hospital stay
Time frame: 30 days post-operatively
Readmission rate
Time frame: 30 days from time of surgery
30-day morbidity
Time frame: 30 days from time of surgery
30-day mortality
Time frame: 30 days from time of surgery
Quality of life
EORTC QLQ-C30, before and after surgery
Time frame: up to 30days from time of surgery
Nutritional status
Body weight, body mass index, body composition, before and after surgery
Time frame: up to 30days from time of surgery
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