Enhanced Recovery at Cesarean Birth to Improve Postoperative Outcomes and Reduce Postoperative Length of Stay

Summary

To determine whether women randomized to an enhanced recovery program will have improved postoperative outcomes including improved breastfeeding initiation and continuation, reduction in hospital length of stay without compromising patient satisfaction in comparison to standard postoperative recovery interventions.

Timeline

Start

2017-09-01

Primary completion

2018-06-15

Completion

2018-06-15

Publications

• Background Wrench IJ, Allison A, Galimberti A, Radley S, Wilson MJ. Introduction of enhanced recovery for elective caesarean section enabling next day discharge: a tertiary centre experience. Int J Obstet Anesth. 2015 May;24(2):124-30. doi: 10.1016/j.ijoa.2015.01.003. Epub 2015 Jan 14.
• Background Brooten D, Roncoli M, Finkler S, Arnold L, Cohen A, Mennuti M. A randomized trial of early hospital discharge and home follow-up of women having cesarean birth. Obstet Gynecol. 1994 Nov;84(5):832-8.
• Background Practice Guidelines for Obstetric Anesthesia: An Updated Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Obstetric Anesthesia and the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology. Anesthesiology. 2016 Feb;124(2):270-300. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000000935. No abstract available.
• Background Habib AS, George RB, McKeen DM, White WD, Ituk US, Megalla SA, Allen TK. Antiemetics added to phenylephrine infusion during cesarean delivery: a randomized controlled trial. Obstet Gynecol. 2013 Mar;121(3):615-623. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e3182839fee.
• Background Masood SN, Masood Y, Naim U, Masood MF. A randomized comparative trial of early initiation of oral maternal feeding versus conventional oral feeding after cesarean delivery. Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2014 Aug;126(2):115-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2014.02.023. Epub 2014 Apr 29.
• Background Huang H, Wang H, He M. Early oral feeding compared with delayed oral feeding after cesarean section: a meta-analysis. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2016;29(3):423-9. doi: 10.3109/14767058.2014.1002765. Epub 2015 Mar 10.
• Background Guo J, Long S, Li H, Luo J, Han D, He T. Early versus delayed oral feeding for patients after cesarean. Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2015 Feb;128(2):100-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2014.07.039. Epub 2014 Oct 22.
• Background Saad AF, Saoud F, Diken ZM, Hegde S, Kuhlmann MJ, Wen TS, Hankins GD, Saade GR, Costantine MM. Early versus Late Feeding after Cesarean Delivery: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Am J Perinatol. 2016 Mar;33(4):415-9. doi: 10.1055/s-0035-1565918. Epub 2015 Oct 19.
• Background Craciunas L, Sajid MS, Ahmed AS. Chewing gum in preventing postoperative ileus in women undergoing caesarean section: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. BJOG. 2014 Jun;121(7):793-9; discussion 799. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.12696. Epub 2014 Mar 14.
• Background Zhu YP, Wang WJ, Zhang SL, Dai B, Ye DW. Effects of gum chewing on postoperative bowel motility after caesarean section: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. BJOG. 2014 Jun;121(7):787-92. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.12662. Epub 2014 Mar 14.
• Background Shang H, Yang Y, Tong X, Zhang L, Fang A, Hong L. Gum chewing slightly enhances early recovery from postoperative ileus after cesarean section: results of a prospective, randomized, controlled trial. Am J Perinatol. 2010 May;27(5):387-91. doi: 10.1055/s-0029-1243313. Epub 2009 Dec 11.
• Background Peleg D, Eberstark E, Warsof SL, Cohen N, Ben Shachar I. Early wound dressing removal after scheduled cesarean delivery: a randomized controlled trial. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2016 Sep;215(3):388.e1-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2016.03.035. Epub 2016 Mar 25.
• Background Lowder JL, Shackelford DP, Holbert D, Beste TM. A randomized, controlled trial to compare ketorolac tromethamine versus placebo after cesarean section to reduce pain and narcotic usage. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2003 Dec;189(6):1559-62; discussion 1562. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2003.08.014.
• Background El-Mazny A, El-Sharkawy M, Hassan A. A prospective randomized clinical trial comparing immediate versus delayed removal of urinary catheter following elective cesarean section. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 2014 Oct;181:111-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2014.07.034. Epub 2014 Aug 1.
• Results Adamina M, Kehlet H, Tomlinson GA, Senagore AJ, Delaney CP. Enhanced recovery pathways optimize health outcomes and resource utilization: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials in colorectal surgery. Surgery. 2011 Jun;149(6):830-40. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2010.11.003. Epub 2011 Jan 14.
• Teigen NC, Sahasrabudhe N, Doulaveris G, Xie X, Negassa A, Bernstein J, Bernstein PS. Enhanced recovery after surgery at cesarean delivery to reduce postoperative length of stay: a randomized controlled trial. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2020 Apr;222(4):372.e1-372.e10. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2019.10.009. Epub 2019 Oct 26.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.