Reduction of Prolonged Postoperative Hospital Stay After Laparoscopic Surgery for Colorectal Carcinoma

Overview

Journal Surg Endosc

Publisher Springer

Specialties Gastroenterology
General Surgery
Radiology

Date 2006 Jul 11

PMID 16823650

Citations 2

Authors

S Yamamoto

S Fujita

T Akasu

K Uehara

Y Moriya

Affiliations

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Abstract

Background: In evaluating the quality of laparoscopic surgery (LS) for colorectal carcinoma, many previous reports have used median or range values to assess the length of postoperative hospital stay and to show the complication and conversion rates separately. However, with this method, it is impossible to assess the proportion of patients who required prolonged postoperative hospital stay because of perioperative morbidities. This study investigated the proportion of patients who benefited from LS as minimally invasive surgery by assessing the percentage of patients who required prolonged postoperative hospital stay because of major perioperative morbidities.

Methods: A review of 202 patients who underwent LS for colorectal carcinoma at the authors' hospital between January 2002 and December 2004 was performed. Short-term outcomes were compared among the patients who underwent LS in 2002, 2003, and 2004.

Results: No significant differences were observed in baseline characteristics among the groups, and all the procedures in this study were completed laparoscopically. There were no significant differences in the operative times and intraoperative blood losses among the groups. Most of the patients resumed liquid intake on postoperative day 1 and solid food on day 3. However, there was a significant difference in the rate of postoperative prolonged hospital stays by year of surgery. In 2004, 97.3% of the patients (72/74) undergoing LS could be discharged to home within 8 days postoperatively. Major complications occurred at a low rate of 1.4% (1/74) in 2004. Regarding the reasons for prolonged postoperative hospital stay, inappropriate judgment of the physician in charge, based primarily on requests from patients without medical necessity, disappeared in 2004.

Conclusions: When LS is performed properly by specialists who have accumulated sufficient experience in both LS and conventional open surgery for colorectal carcinoma, up to 97% of patients undergoing LS can benefit from minimally invasive surgery.

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