Quality of Life After Routine Nasogastric Decompression After Distal Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer Patients
- Conditions
- Gastric Cancer
- Interventions
- Device: nasogastric tubeDevice: without nasogastric tube
- Registration Number
- NCT00738478
- Lead Sponsor
- Wakayama Medical University
- Brief Summary
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.
- Detailed 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.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 180
- on the basis of whether distal gastrectomy was anticipated at WMUH for gastric cancer.
- patients who were diagnosed inadequacy for this study by a physician.
- patients without an informed consent.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description A nasogastric tube Arm A: with nasogastric tube B without nasogastric tube Arm B: without nasogastric tube
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Quality of life seven days after operation
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method complication, hematological data, the time of discharge
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Second Department of Surgery, Wakayama Medical University
🇯🇵Wakayama, Japan