Short Hospital Stay after Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery without Fast Track
Table 1
Comparison of the 213 laparoscopic-treated patients with 327 patients treated with conventional open procedure in the same period (November 2004–December 2008) in our department.
Parameter
Laparoscopic procedure
Conventional open procedure
value
Sex (male/female)
114/99
158/169
ns
Age (years, median (range))
70 (36–94)
72 (36–92)
0.002
BMI (kg/m2, median (range))
23.9 (16.4–42.3)
23.4 (13.9–36.0)
0.023
ASA class (%)
I
32 (16)
34 (11)
II
145 (70)
218 (69)
ns
III
30 (15)
62 (20)
IV
0 (0)
3 (1)
Blood loss (mL, median (range))
50 (0–1600)
200 (0–2700)
<0.001
Number of patients with a primary anastomosis (%)
184 (86)
237 (72)
ns
Number of lymph nodes in resection (median (range))
15 (2–50)
15 (1–75)
ns
Hospital stay (days, median (range))
With stoma
10 (5–24)
10 (5–14)
ns
With primary anastomosis
4 (1–55)
8 (2–109)
<0.001
Total
5 (1–55)
8 (2–109)
<0.001
Clavien-Dindo Classification of Surgical complications (%)
No complications
168 (79)
223 (68)
0.006
Grade I
7 (3)
14 (4)
Grade II
9 (4)
32 (10)
Grade III-a
2 (1)
3 (1)
Grade III-b
24 (11)
35 (11)
Grade IV-a
2 (1)
3 (1)
Grade IV-b
0 (0)
0 (0)
Grade V
1 (0)
17 (5)
Dukes classification (%)
Dukes A
14 (7)
24 (7)
Dukes B
106 (50)
148 (45)
Dukes C
59 (28)
93 (28)
Dukes D
28 (13)
47 (14)
Not classified
6 (3)
15 (5)
BMI: body mass index, ASA: American Society of Anaesthesiology, ns: nonsignificant ().
