Rectal Cancer Clinical Trial
Official title:
Electroacupuncture for Postoperative Ileus After Laparoscopic Surgery for Mid and Low Rectal Cancer: A Prospective, Randomized, Sham-controlled Trial
This is a prospective, randomized, sham-controlled, superiority trial that aimed to investigate the efficacy of electroacupuncture (EA) in reducing the duration of postoperative ileus and hospital stay after laparoscopic total mesorectal excision or abdominoperineal resection for rectal cancer.
Status | Recruiting |
Enrollment | 164 |
Est. completion date | December 2019 |
Est. primary completion date | December 2019 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
Gender | All |
Age group | 18 Years and older |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - Consecutive patients (aged between 18 and 80) with mid/low rectal cancer (adenocarcinoma in the rectum of which the lowest margin of the tumor is located within 12 cm of the anal verge as measured by rigid sigmoidoscopy) undergoing laparoscopic sphincter-preserving TME or APR without the need of conversion - American Society of Anesthesiologists grading I-III - Informed consent available Exclusion Criteria: - Patients with previous experience of acupuncture - Those undergoing simultaneous laparoscopic resection of rectal cancer and other coexisting intraabdominal diseases - Those undergoing laparoscopic resection of rectal cancer with en bloc resection of surrounding organs - Those who developed intraoperative problems or complications (e.g. bleeding, tumor perforation) that required conversion - Those undergoing emergency surgery - Those with previous history of midline laparotomy - Those with evidence of peritoneal carcinomatosis - Those who are expected to receive epidural anesthesia or analgesia - Those with cardiac pacemaker - Those who are pregnant - Those who are allergic to the acupuncture needles |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Hong Kong | Prince of Wales Hospital | Hong Kong |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | GI-2 recovery | A composite assessment that measured upper (first tolerance of solid food) and lower (first bowel movement) GI tract recovery, with time to achieve GI-2 recovery based on the last event to occur | Up to 10 days | |
Secondary | Time of first passing flatus | Up to 10 days | ||
Secondary | Length of hospital stay | Up to 1 month | ||
Secondary | Pain scores on the first 3 postoperative days | On visual analog scale (from 0 which implies no pain at all, to 10 which implies the worst pain imaginable) | Up to postoperative day 3 | |
Secondary | Postoperative analgesic requirement | Up to 1 month | ||
Secondary | Short-term morbidity | Defined by the Clavien-Dindo classification of surgical complications | Up to 1 month | |
Secondary | Adverse events related to EA/SA | Up to 1 month |
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