ANALGESIA FOLLOWING ABDOMINAL SURGERY â?? An audit of clinical practice and patient satisfaction in a cancer centre
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- All adult patients undergoing major abdominal surgeries at Tata Memorial Hospital during a 6 â?? 8 month period and eligible as per the inclusion criteria will be included in the study.Health Condition 2: C00-D49- Neoplasms
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2013/06/003721
- Lead Sponsor
- Tata Memorial Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 1000
Inclusion Criteria
1.Adult patients in age group 18-80 yr
2.ASA grade I,II, III
3.Open abdominal surgeries- gastrectomy, radical cholecystectomy, Whippleâ??s, exploratory laparotomy, anterior resection, abdominoperineal resection, colectomy, interval cytoreduction, hysterectomy, radical cystectomy and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND)
Exclusion Criteria
1.Refusal of consent
2.Paediatric patient ( 18yrs)
3.Laparoscopic surgery
4.Hepatectomy.
5.Patients requiring postoperative ventilation beyond the day of surgery.
6.Patients with cognitive impairment
7.Patients with drug intolerance
8.Illiterate patients those who cannot read Hindi English and Marathi
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To identify the current clinical practice of postoperative analgesia and to compare analgesic efficacy, side effect profilein patients undergoing major abdominal surgery for cancer and provided with any one of the three analgesic regimens. i.e. epidural, IV PCA and around-the-clock IV/oral analgesia.Timepoint: First three postoperative days
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method patient satisfaction in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery for cancer and provided with any one of the three analgesic regimens. i.e. epidural, IV PCA and around-the-clock IV/oral analgesia.Timepoint: fourth postoperative day