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The Effects on Major Organ Complications on Esophagectomy of New Anesthetic ERAS Strategy: a Prospective Investigation

The Effects on Major Organ Complications on Esophagectomy of New Anesthetic ERAS (Enhanced Recovery After Surgery) Strategy: a Prospective Investigation

Status
UNKNOWN
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT03176680
Acronym
ERAS
Enrollment
120
Registered
2017-06-05
Start date
2017-06-15
Completion date
2020-03-31
Last updated
2017-06-05

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Anesthesia, Complication, Postoperative, Esophageal Cancer

Keywords

Anesthesia,Esophagectomy,Esophageal cancer,Treatment outcome

Brief summary

The goals of this study are to testify the effectiveness on enhancement recovery by new anesthetic ERAS (Enhanced recovery after surgery) strategy.

Detailed description

ERAS (Enhanced recovery after surgery) strategy is extremely important for patients receiving esophagectomy including the preoperative preparation (smoking cessation, exercise prescription and nutrition prescription), intraoperative management, and postoperative analgesia and respiratory rehabilitation. However, despite the less invasive thoracoscopic esophagectomy and laparoscopic gastric tube reconstruction was developed, respiratory complications including acute lung injury (ALI) were observed up to 20% and associate with 50% of mortality. A new preventive anesthetic ERAS strategy including precise perioperative fluid management and preventive management after tracheal extubation should be developed. Previous report indicated that none of the variables studied except fluid administration were shown as a risk factor for the development of respiratory complications on the multivariate analysis on esophageal surgery. However, there are rare prospective investigations of perioperative fluid administration strategy on postoperative complications after esophagectomy. Our group has studied on goal-directed fluid optimization and we found that the goal of optimization may differ for specific surgery. For esophagectomy, new anesthetic ERAS strategy should include precise preoptimized circulatory management and aggressive postoperative pulmonary care. Based on Frank-Starling law (stroke volume, SV, response to fluid therapy), a precise goal for perioperative goal-directed fluid therapy (GDFT) becomes possible in anesthetic practice. However, the effects of preoperative maximization of SV remain unknown. Following our study in last year, we planned to randomize 120 esophagectomy patients in the following 3 years into different GDFT groups (SV maximization and SV normalization groups). Postoperative THRIVE (Transnasal Humidified Rapid-Insufflation Ventilatory Exchange) therapy will be take place immediately after tracheal extubation. Blood samples will be obtained preoperatively to postoperative day 1 to measure lung injuries, kidney injuries as well as the inflammatory and oxidative markers. The clinical records will be collected (including extubation time, ICU stay, hospitalization days, 30-day mortality, 90-day mortality, readmission, postoperative cardiovascular, pulmonary, and renal complications, gastric tube related complications etc. ). The goals of this study are to testify the effectiveness on enhance recovery by new anesthetic ERAS strategy.

Interventions

PROCEDUREFluid therapy optimization

colloid 250 mL bolus to increase stroke volume index (SVI). If the increase of SVI is more than 10% of baseline, repeat the bolus. If the increase of SVI is less than 10% of baseline, stop the bolus.

Sponsors

National Taiwan University Hospital
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Caregiver)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
35 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Patients with esophageal cancer * Patients will undergo video-assisted thoracic surgical (VATS) esophagectomy and laparoscopic gastric tube reconstruction

Exclusion criteria

* History of arrhythmia * History of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) * With poor lung function test (FEV1 \< 70% or FEV1/ forced vital capacity (FVC) \< 70% of predicted) * Preoperative creatinine more than 1.5 mg/dl

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Postoperative complicationswithin 1 year after operationLength of ICU stay, total hospitalization days, 30-day mortality, 90-day mortality, postoperative pulmonary complications, cardiovascular complications, renal complications, prolonged extubation, readmission, gastric tube related complications

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Kidney injuriesPreoperative to postoperative day 1Elevated plasma creatinine
Lung injuriesPreoperative to postoperative day 1Change in the (PF ratio): ratio of arterial oxygen partial pressure (PaO2) to fractional inspired oxygen (FiO2)
Inflammatory markersPreoperative to postoperative day 1Change in cytokines

Countries

Taiwan

Contacts

Primary ContactYa-Jung Cheng, PhD
chengyj@ntu.edu.tw+886-2-2312-3456

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026