Enhanced Recovery After Surgery and Perioperative Laryngectomy Outcomes

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OBJECTIVE: Patients undergoing laryngectomy are particularly vulnerable to postoperative complications secondary to social and nutritional barriers, substance abuse, and prior cancer treatment. Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programs may mitigate this vulnerability and improve postoperative complications and oncologic outcomes. The objective of this study is to evaluate the postoperative complication rate and oncologic outcomes of patients undergoing laryngectomy before and after ERAS program implementation.

METHODS: A historic cohort of 50 patients who underwent laryngectomy at the Levine Cancer Institute, Charlotte, North Carolina from 2014 to 2019 (pre-ERAS) was compared to 33 patients who underwent laryngectomy after ERAS implementation from 2019 to 2020. The primary outcomes included length of stay (LOS), Clavien-Dindo postoperative complications through 30 days following discharge, overall survival (OS), and recurrence-free survival between pre-ERAS and ERAS groups.

RESULTS: Demographic characteristics between the two groups were similar. ERAS pathway implementation led to core care element consistency and improvement in the clinical perioperative course, including preoperative nutritional intervention (p = 0.009), postoperative ventilator independence (p = 0.0004), and refractory nausea/emesis (p = 0.18). Severe (≥ grade 3) complications (p = 0.49) and LOS (p = 0.68) were similar between groups. No significant difference in Cox proportional modeling of OS (p = 0.60) or recurrence-free survival (p = 0.17) was noted.

CONCLUSIONS: ERAS did not improve LOS, major postoperative complications, or oncologic outcomes in this cohort of patients who underwent laryngectomy. However, ERAS positively influenced secondary endpoints within the laryngectomy perioperative course, conferring qualitative health care benefits.

LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: 3 Laryngoscope, 134:2262-2268, 2024.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:134

Enthalten in:

The Laryngoscope - 134(2024), 5 vom: 20. Apr., Seite 2262-2268

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Frenkel, Catherine H [VerfasserIn]
Donahue, Erin E [VerfasserIn]
Brickman, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Hong, Steven [VerfasserIn]
Milas, Zvonimir L [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

ERAS
Journal Article
Laryngectomy
Length of stay

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Date Completed 11.04.2024

Date Revised 11.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/lary.31199

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364752793