Table 1

Perioperative protocols using the enhanced recovery after surgery protocol and conventional treatment

ProjectERAS groupNon-ERAS group
Perioperative projects
 Nutrition assessment (PG-SGA score) Yes, selective nutritional intervention No
 Preoperative health education Yes, chief nurse No
 Training of cardiopulmonary function Yes No
 Prophylactic antithrombotic treatment Yes, highest Caprini score Yes, highest Caprini score
 Gastrointestinal decompression tube No Yes
 All-purpose food Yes No, fasting
 Preoperative bowel preparation No Yes
 Prophylactic use of antibiotics Yes Yes
Intraoperative projects
 Maintain anesthesia under EEG dual-spectrum monitoring Yes Yes
 Intraoperative ventilation with low tidal volume Yes Yes
 Transverse abdominal muscle plane block Yes No
 Ropivacaine infiltration of surgical incisions Yes No
 Indwelling abdominal cavity drainage tube If needed Necessary
 Intraoperative body temperature condition monitoring Yes Yes
 Intraoperative fluid management Yes Yes
Postoperative projects
 Early activity Yes No
 Chewing gum on day 1 after operation Yes No
 Early removal stomach tube (postoperative 1st day tube) Yes No
 Early extirpation of abdominal leading tube (placing in operation, extirpation in 3 days after operation) Yes No
 Early feeding Yes No
 Postoperative rewarming Yes Yes
 Preventing nausea and emesis Yes Yes
 Postoperative respiratory management Yes Yes
 Active analgesia management Yes Yes
 Preventing constipation Yes No
 Early removal catheter Yes No
 Wound management Yes No
 Prophylactic antithrombotic treatment Yes, highest Caprini score Yes, highest Caprini score
 Postoperative health education Yes No