metricas
covid
Buscar en
Cirugía Española (English Edition)
Toda la web
Inicio Cirugía Española (English Edition) A prospective, randomised, controlled study on the need to mechanically prepare ...
Journal Information
Vol. 85. Issue 1.
Pages 20-25 (January 2009)
Share
Share
Download PDF
More article options
Vol. 85. Issue 1.
Pages 20-25 (January 2009)
Full text access
A prospective, randomised, controlled study on the need to mechanically prepare the colon in scheduled colorectal surgery
Estudio prospectivo controlado y aleatorizado sobre la necesidad de la preparación mecánica de colon en la cirugía programada colorrectal
Visits
1281
Manuel Alcántara Moral
Corresponding author
malcantara@tauli.cat

Author for correspondence.
, Xavier Serra Aracil, Jordi Bombardó Juncá, Laura Mora López, Rubén Hernando Tavira, Isidro Ayguavives Garnica, Oscar Aparicio Rodríguez, Salvador Navarro Soto
Servicio de Cirugía General y Aparato Digestivo, Corporación Sanitaria Parc Taulí, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain
This item has received
Article information
Abstract
Introduction

Mechanical preparation of the colon (MPC) in colorectal surgery has been a dogma that has been questioned over the last few years. The objective of this study is to demonstrate that morbidity in scheduled colorectal surgery is the same or lower without MPC.

Material and method

Patients subjected to scheduled left colon and rectal surgery with primary anastomosis randomised into 2 groups. The “Preparation” group (MPC) received MPC and the “non-preparation” group (No-MPC) had only cleaning enemas. The variables collected were: demographic, oncological, nutritional, risk prediction models, and morbidity-mortality.

Results

Of the 193 patients included: 69 received MPC and 71 did not; 89 patients with colocolic anastomosis (MPC, 38; no MPC, 51) and 50 colorectal (MPC, 31; no MPC, 19). Statistically significant differences were seen in the overall analysis in favour of “no preparation” as regards morbidity (43.55% with MPC and 27% with No MPC) and nosocomial infection (27.5% and 11.4%). There was 11.6% wound infections in the MPC compared to 5.7% in the no MPC, which was not statistically significant. The only mortalities were in the MPC group 2/69 (2.9% of patients). As regards the location of the anastomosis, in the colocolics the differences were more pronounced, with statistically significant differences in the morbidity, anastomosis dehiscence, and nosocomial infection variables. The effect of no MPC was not so evident in colorectal anastomosis.

Conclusions

Our results suggest that there is no benefit in MPC before surgery in colocolic anastomosis. No-MPC is not associated with a higher morbidity in wound infection or anastomotic dehiscence. In colorectal anastomosis the differences are not so evident, therefore a much bigger series needs to be studied.

Keywords:
Mechanical preparation of the colon
Colorectal surgery
Wound infection
Anastomotic dehiscence
Resumen
Introducción

La preparación mecánica de colon (PMC) en la cirugía colorrectal es un dogma que se ha cuestionado en los últimos años. El objetivo de este estudio es demostrar que la morbilidad en cirugía programada colorrectal es igual o menor sin la PMC.

Material y método

Pacientes sometidos a cirugía programada de colon izquierdo y recto con anastomosis primaria fueron aleatorizados en dos grupos. Al grupo PMC se le practicó la preparación y al grupo sin PMC, sólo enemas de limpieza. Se recogieron variables demográficas, oncológicas, nutricionales y quirúrgicas, modelos de predicción de riesgo y morbimortalidad.

Resultados

Se incluyó a 193 pacientes, 69 con PMC y 71 sin ella; 89 pacientes con anastomosis colocólica (PMC, 38; sin PMC, 51) y 50 con anastomosis colorrectal (PMC, 31; sin PMC, 19). En el análisis general, se apreciaron diferencias estadísticamente significativas a favor de no preparar en cuanto a la morbilidad (el 43,5% en el PMC y el 27% en los sin PMC) e infección nosocomial (el 27,5 y el 11,4%). En la infección de herida, sin diferencias estadísticamente significativas, se obtuvo el 11,6% en el PMC, frente al 5,7% en el sin PMC. Las únicas muertes fueron 2/69 (2,9%) pacientes en el grupo PMC. Según localización de anastomosis, en las colocólicas las diferencias fueron más acusadas y estadísticamente significativas en las variables morbilidad, dehiscencia de anastomosis e infección nosocomial. en las anastomosis colorrectales no fue tan evidente el efecto de no preparar.

Conclusiones

Nuestros resultados indican que no existe un beneficio de la PMC en la cirugía ante anastomosis colocólicas. No preparar no tiene relación con más morbilidad en infección de herida ni dehiscencia anastomótica. En anastomosis colorrectales, las diferencias no tan evidentes hacen necesarias series más amplias.

Palabras clave:
Preparación mecánica del colon
Cirugía colorrectal
Infección de herida
Dehiscencia anastomótica
Full text is only aviable in PDF
References
[1.]
P. Bretcha, J. Rius, J. Rodríguez, A. Navarro, C. Marco.
Preparación mecánica preoperatoria del colon. Estudio prospectivo, aleatorio, simple ciego, comparativo entre fosfato sódico y polietilenglicol.
Cir Esp, 72 (2002), pp. 62-66
[2.]
W.S. Halstedt.
Circular suture of the intestine: an experimental study.
Am J Med Sci, 94 (1887), pp. 436-461
[3.]
F.J. Thornton, A. Barbul.
Anastomtic healing in gastrointestinal surgery.
Surg Clin North Am, 3 (1997), pp. 549-573
[4.]
K. Holte, K.G. Nielsen, J.L. Madsen, H. Kehlet.
Physiologic effects of bowel preparation.
Dis Colon Rectum, 47 (2004), pp. 1397-1402
[5.]
P. Bucher, P. Gervaz, J.F. Egger, C. Soravia, P. Morel.
Morphologic alterations associated with mechanical bowel preparation before elective colorectal surgery: a randomized trial.
Dis Colon Rectum, 49 (2006), pp. 109-112
[6.]
E.S.R. Hughes.
Asepsis in large-bowel surgery.
Ann Royal Col Surg Engl, 51 (1972), pp. 347-356
[7.]
A.D. Irving, D. Scrimgeour.
Mechanical bowel preparation for colonic resection and anastomosis.
Br J Surg, 74 (1987), pp. 580-581
[8.]
D. Johnston.
Bowel preparation for colorectal surgery [editorial].
Br J Surg, 74 (1987), pp. 553-554
[9.]
S.M. George Jr., T.C. Fabian, G.R. Voeller, K.A. Kudsk, E.C. Mangiante, L.G. Britt.
Primary repair of colon wounds. A prospective trial in unselected patients.
Ann Surg, 209 (1989), pp. 728-733
[10.]
P. Brownson, S. Jenkins, D. Nott, S. Ellenbogen.
Mechanical bowel preparation before colorectal surgery: results of a prospective randomized trial.
Br J Surg, 79 (1992), pp. 461-462
[11.]
J.V. Roig, J. García-Armengol, R. Alós, A. Solana, R. Rodríguez-Carrillo, P. Galindo, et al.
Preparar el colon para la cirugía. ¿Necesidad real o nada más (y nada menos) que el peso de la tradición?.
Cir Esp, 81 (2007), pp. 240-246
[12.]
G.P. Copeland, D. Jones, M. Walters.
POSSUM: a scoring system for surgical audit.
Br J Surg, 78 (1991), pp. 355-360
[13.]
M.S. Whiteley, D.R. Prytherch, B. Higgins, P.C. Weaver, W.G. Prout.
An evaluation of the POSSUM surgical scoring system.
Br J Surg, 86 (1996), pp. 812-815
[14.]
P.P. Tekkis, D.R. Prytherch, H.M. Kocher, A. Senapati, J.D. Poloniecki, J.D. Stamatakis, et al.
Development of a dedicated risk-adjustment scoring system for colorectal surgery (colorectal POSSUM).
Br J Surg, 91 (2004), pp. 1174-1182
[15.]
T.C. Horan, R.P. Gaynes, W.J. Martone, W.R. Jarvis, T.G. Emori.
CDC definitions of nosocomial surgical site infections, 1992: a modification of CDC definitions of surgical wound infections.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 13 (1992), pp. 606-608
[16.]
A. Mahajna, M. Krausz, D. Rosin, M. Shabtai, D. Hershko, A. Ayalon, et al.
Bowel preparation is associated with spillage of bowel contents in colorectal surgery.
Dis Colon Rectum, 48 (2005), pp. 1626-1631
[17.]
B. Jung, L. Pählman, P.-O. Nyström, E. Nilsson, for the Mechanical Bowel Preparation Study Group.
Multicentre randomized clinical trial of mechanical bowel preparation in elective colonic resection.
Br J Surg, 94 (2007), pp. 689-695
[18.]
P. Bucher, P. Gervaz, C. Soravia, B. Mermillod, M. Erne, P. Morel.
Randomized clinical trial of mechanical bowel preparation versus no preparation before elective left-sided colorectal surgery.
Br J Surg, 92 (2005), pp. 409-414
[19.]
P. Wille-Jorgensen, K.F. Guenaga, D. Matos, A. Castro.
Preoperative mechanical bowel cleansing or not? An updated meta-analysis.
Colorectal Dis, 7 (2005), pp. 304-310
[20.]
P. Matthiessen, O. Hallbook, J. Rutegard, G. Simert, R. Sjodahl.
Resection of the defunctioning stoma reduces symptomatic anastomotic leakage after low anterior resection of the rectum for cancer: a randomized multicenter trial.
Ann Surg, 246 (2007), pp. 207-214
[21.]
F. Bretagnol, A. Alves, A. Ricci, P. Valleur, Y. Panis.
Rectal cancer surgery without mechanical bowel preparation.
Br J Surg, 94 (2007), pp. 1266-1271
[22.]
C. Platell, N. Barwood, G. Makin.
Radomized trial of bowel preparetion with a single phosphate enema or polyethylene glycol before elective colorectal surgery.
Br J Surg, 93 (2006), pp. 427-433
Copyright © 2009. Asociación Española de Cirujanos
Download PDF
Article options
es en pt

¿Es usted profesional sanitario apto para prescribir o dispensar medicamentos?

Are you a health professional able to prescribe or dispense drugs?

Você é um profissional de saúde habilitado a prescrever ou dispensar medicamentos