Health Condition 1: O- Medical and Surgical
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention1: transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation: In arm A, immediately after surgery(within 30min), a portable TENS device comprising of 4 electrodes is applied to the patient. Two sterili
Sponsors
Dr Ashok Kumar Puranik
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1.Patients aged 18 to 75 years 2. Patients undergoing exploratory laparotomy with midline incision of length greater than or equal to 5 cm
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Damage control surgeries 2. Patients with cardiac pacemakers 3. Patients with spinal cord stimulator or an intrathecal pump 4. Patients with dermatitis, skin infections and sensory impairment at site of application of adhesive electrodes 5. Surgical history of gastrectomy / esophagectomy (vagal nerve transection) 6. Irritable bowel syndrome 7. Inflammatory bowel disease 8. Patients with acute and chronic opioid use 9. Patients with preoperative severe mental illness 10. History of spinal injuries 11. Pancreatitis
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Time in hours to first post-operative passage of stools per rectum or per stoma starting from the time of randomization.Timepoint: Time in hours to first post-operative passage of stools per rectum or per stoma starting from the time of randomization on after 12 hours, 24 hours, 36 hours, 48 hours | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1.Length of post-operative hospital stay 2.Nasogastric aspiration output volume monitoring in mL every 24 hours for 3 days 3.Time in hours to removal of Nasogastric tube starting from time of randomization. 4.Incidence of reinsertion of nasogastric tube. 5.Time to initiation of liquid diet and solid diet starting from the time of randomization. 6.Evaluation of pain intensity using visual analogue score in the immediate post-operative period and then at 24, 48 and 72 hours of treatment. Timepoint: 1.Length of post-operative hospital stay 2.Nasogastric aspiration output volume monitoring in mL every 24 hours for 3 days 3.Time in hours to removal of Nasogastric tube starting from time of randomization. 4.Incidence of reinsertion of nasogastric tube 5.Time to initiation of liquid diet and solid diet starting from the time of randomization. 6.Evaluation of pain intensity using visual analogue score in the immediate post-operative period and then at 24, 48 and 72 hours of treatment. | — |
Countries
India
Contacts
Public ContactKarthik N
AIIMS, Jodhpur
Outcome results
None listed