• Department of Colorectal Surgery, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, P. R. China;
LIU Zheng, Email: Zheng.liu@cicams.ac.cn; WANG Xishan, Email: wxshan1208@126.com
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Objective To analyze the current situation of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) application in colorectal surgery in China, and summarize the existing problems.Methods After the questionnaire was developed, members of the Chinese Society of Colorectal Cancer were selected as respondents and results were collected by online questionnaire. All the respondents volunteered to visit the homepage of the questionnaire through the link address. After completing the questionnaire, they were saved and submitted.Results A total of 120 questionnaires were sent out and finally 107 respondents completed the electronic questionnaire survey. Among them, 73 (68.2%) routinely carried out ERAS programmes and 34 (31.8%) didn’t carry out ERAS programmes. Among the 11 ERAS programmes, most surgeons carried out 3–7 ERAS programmes, among which 4 ERAS programmes was the most (25 surgeons, 23.4%). The survey results for different ERAS programmes showed that only 4 out of 11 ERAS programmes had implemented more than half of the respondents. Respondents with older than 45 years old were more inclined not to undergo mechanical bowel preparation before surgery (P<0.001) and were more likely early postoperative oral intake (P=0.008), respondents with more than 1 000 hospital beds were more likely to select preoperative oral carbohydrate (P=0.012) and postoperative multimodal analgesia (P<0.001), respondents with more than 200 cases of colorectal surgery per year were more inclinedto take oral carbohydrate before surgery (P=0.018), and respondents whose rate of minimally invasive surgery was higher than 50% were more inclined to choose multimode analgesia (P=0.047). On the contrary, the respondents in the tumor hospitals recommended shortening the length of postoperative hospital stay and recommending early discharge (P=0.014). Hospitals that routinely performed ERAS (P<0.001), preoperative oral carbohydrate (P<0.001), without preoperative gastric tube (P=0.019), early postoperative drinking water (P=0.012), and early postoperative oral feeding (P=0.038) were associated with a shorter average postoperative hospital stay.Conclusion ERAS has not been popularized in the field of colorectal surgery in China, and there are differences between different doctors and between different hospitals, which still need to be promoted continuously.

Citation: LIU Enrui, MA Xiaolong, CHEN Haipeng, GUAN Xu, ZHAO Zhixun, JIANG Zheng, LIU Zheng, WANG Xishan. The survey of enhanced recovery after surgery projects for colorectal cancer. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2021, 28(4): 438-444. doi: 10.7507/1007-9424.202007018 Copy

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