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title: Coffee Consumption for Intestinal Function Recovery After Laparoscopic Gynecologic Surgery
nct_id: NCT03963180
overall_status: COMPLETED
phase: NA
sponsor: Erzincan Military Hospital
study_type: INTERVENTIONAL
primary_condition: Postoperative Ileus
countries: Turkey (Türkiye)
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ct_last_update_post_date: 2020-03-27
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# Coffee Consumption for Intestinal Function Recovery After Laparoscopic Gynecologic Surgery

**Official Title:** Coffee Consumption for Intestinal Function Recovery After Laparoscopic Gynecologic Surgery: a Randomized Controlled Trial

**NCT ID:** [NCT03963180](https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03963180)

## Key Facts

- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study Type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Target Enrollment:** 100
- **Lead Sponsor:** Erzincan Military Hospital
- **Conditions:** Postoperative Ileus
- **Start Date:** 2019-05-27
- **Completion Date:** 2019-12-31
- **CT.gov Last Update:** 2020-03-27

## Brief Summary

Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has revolutionized women's healthcare. Laparoscopy is an excellent route of MIS. Today, laparoscopic surgery is one of the major procedure in the management of a gynecologic disease. It has revealed benefits of decreased morbidity, earlier discharged, and quicker return to normal daily activities, and shorter hospital when compared to abdominal approach.

Postoperative ileus (POI) defined as an uncomplicated ileus occurring following surgery, resolving spontaneously within 2 to 3 days. Clinically, it is characterized by abdominal distension, a lack of bowel sounds, nausea, vomiting, stomach cramps, and lack of flatus. It leads to morbidity and delays in patient discharge from the hospital, leading to an increased economic burden on the healthcare system. That's why many researchers have focused on the prevent of postoperative ileus; many studies have investigated preventive approaches such as early mobilization of the patient, adequate pain control, epidural anaesthesia, hot pack therapy, motility agents such as metoclopramide, and alvimopan. Although POI incidence has lower after the laparoscopic surgery it remains a major problem during the postoperative period.

Recent studies demonstrated that coffee consumption is associated with improved gastrointestinal function without worsening of postoperative morbidity for both open and laparoscopic surgery. However, until now, no studies investigating the effect of postoperative coffee consumption at laparoscopic gynecologic surgery. Therefore, the investigators performed a randomized controlled trial to assess whether coffee consumption accelerates the recovery of bowel function after laparoscopic gynecologic surgery.

## Eligibility

- **Minimum age:** 21 Years
- **Maximum age:** 80 Years
- **Sex:** FEMALE
- **Healthy Volunteers:** Yes

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Inclusion Criteria:

Patients underwent total laparoscopic hysterectomy with or without additional surgery \*salpingo-oophorectomy,

* salpingectomy,
* pelvic and/or para-aortic lymphadenectomy

Exclusion Criteria:

* patients with hypersensitivity or allergy to caffeine/ coffee,
* patients with thyroid disease,
* patients with inflammatory bowel disease,
* patients with compromised liver function,
* patients with clinically significant cardiac arrhythmia,
* patients with chronic constipation (defined as \< 2 bowel movements per week),
* patients with a history of abdominal bowel surgery,
* patients with previous abdominal irradiation,
* the requirement for postoperative care in the intensive care unit \>24 hours postoperatively,
* the requirement for nasogastric tube drainage beyond the end of the surgery
* requirement bowel anastomosis
* conversion to laparotomy.
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## Arms

- **control group** (NO_INTERVENTION) — the control group received 3 cups hot water on the 6th, 12th and 18th hours after the operation
- **study group** (EXPERIMENTAL) — drank 3 cups of caffeinated coffee on the 6th, 12th and 18th hours after the operation.

## Interventions

- **coffee** (OTHER) — All patients were asked to drink the entire 150-mL amounts within 20 minutes under the supervision of a nurse or doctor. Patients were free to drink any amount of water but no more coffee, black tea, or other forms of caffeine, such as soda. Coffee and hot water were prepared with a conventional coffee machine (Nescafe Alegria; 100 g caffeine; Nestlé. Gatwick, United Kingdom).

## Primary Outcomes

- **Time to first passage of flatus** _(time frame: 72 hours)_ — Patients were checked hourly by auscultation for bowel sounds and were asked to note the time of first flatus and defecation and to inform the observing nurses or assistant.The time to the first passage of flatus after surgery during routine postoperative care.

## Secondary Outcomes

- **Time to tolerance of a solid diet** _(time frame: 72 hours)_
- **Time to the first bowel movement** _(time frame: 72 hours)_

## Locations (2)

- Kemal Gungorduk, Muğla, Turkey (Türkiye)
- Mugla Sıtkı Kocman University Education and Research Hospital, Muğla, Turkey (Türkiye)

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