Trial reportThe American surgeon2016
Preoperative Bowel Preparation before Elective Bowel Resection or Ostomy Closure in the Pediatric Patient Population Has No Impact on Outcomes: A Prospective Randomized Study.
Trial report in The American surgeon, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Preoperative mechanical bowel preparation versus no preparation for pediatric intestinal surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Pediatric surgery international · 2025Pooled it
- The effect of preoperative mechanical bowel preparation in paediatric bowel surgery on postoperative wound related complications: A meta-analysis.International wound journal · 2024Pooled it
- The value of mechanical bowel preparation prior to pediatric colorectal surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Pediatric surgery international · 2018Pooled it
- The influence of preoperative bowel preparation on surgical site infection in pediatric colorectal surgery.Seminars in pediatric surgery · 2026Review
- Robot-assisted laparoscopic augmentation ileocystoplasty and Mitrofanoff appendicovesicostomy in children: Step-by-step and modifications to UChicago technique.BJUI compass · 2020Article
- Stomal Closure: Strategies to Prevent Incisional Hernia.Frontiers in surgery · 2018Article
- Bowel preparation for elective procedures in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ paediatrics open · 2017Article
- Retrospective Analysis of the Outcome of Stoma Closure in Children without Preoperative Mechanical Bowel Preparation.Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric SurgeonsArticle
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Authors and funding
10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The role of preoperative bowel prep in the pediatric surgical population is uncertain. We performed a randomized prospective study to evaluate noninferiority between the presence or absence of a preoperative bowel prep in elective pediatric bowel surgery on postoperative outcomes. Patients aged three months to 18 years were recruited and randomized to the bowel prep group or the no bowel prep group. Patients were evaluated in-hospital and at postoperative clinic visits. Thirty-two patients were recruited; 18 in the bowel prep group and 14 in the no bowel prep group. There was no statistical difference (P > 0.05) in complications between the groups. Complications were observed in five patients in each group (27.8% and 35.7%, respectively). In the bowel prep group, two (11.1%) had wound infection (vs three, 21.4%), 0 had an intra-abdominal abscess (vs one, 7.1%), one (5.6%) had sepsis (vs one, 7.1%), one (5.6%) had an anastomotic leak (vs 0), and three (16.7%) had a bowel obstruction (vs one, 7.1%). There were no extra-abdominal complications. There were no significant differences in complications between the two groups. Further research is warranted, but may require a multi-institutional trial to recruit sufficient numbers to make conclusions about the significance of the need for bowel prep.
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