Gastric Cancer
Conditions
Keywords
distal gastrectomy, quality of life
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.
Interventions
DEVICEnasogastric tube
insertion of nasogastric tube for 2 days after operation
DEVICEwithout nasogastric tube
without nasogastric tube after operation
Sponsors
Wakayama Medical University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
20 Years to 80 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* on the basis of whether distal gastrectomy was anticipated at WMUH for gastric cancer.
Exclusion criteria
* patients who were diagnosed inadequacy for this study by a physician. * patients without an informed consent.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Quality of life | seven days after operation |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| complication, hematological data, | the time of discharge |
Countries
Japan
Outcome results
None listed