Rocking Motion: Physiologic Effect on the Surgical Stress Response

Completed · Phase 1

Conditions studied: Gastrointestinal Cancer

In brief

After having abdominal surgery, patients often experience a lack of bowel function that can cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal swelling, pain, and/or discomfort. This is known as "post-operative ileus." Patients are usually not allowed to leave the hospital until their doctor is sure that their bowel function has returned. The goal of this clinical research study is to compare using a rocking chair to the standard of care in improving post-operative ileus after abdominal surgery.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01200316

Run by

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

People needed

86

Starts

2012-02-01

Expected to finish

2017-11-20

Last updated by the study team

2017-11-30

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• At least 18 years old
• Speak and read English
• Scheduled to undergo abdominal surgery
• Tolerate sitting in a rocking or nonrocking chair
• Able to ambulate
• Scheduled to receive epidural or intravenous patient controlled analgesia
• Cognitively intact
• Signed a study-specific informed consent prior to study entry
• May include patients undergoing ileostomy or colostomy reversal

You may not qualify if…

• All others will be excluded.

Where it is running

• University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center — Houston, Texas, United States

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