The RAQET Study: the Effect of Eating a Popsicle Directly After Bariatric Surgery on the Quality of Patient Recovery; a Randomised Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT: Quality of recovery could be influenced positively if there is less postoperative sore throat (POST). Eating a popsicle might attenuate this sore throat. Especially for bariatric surgery, early recovery is important. Adding popsicles to the postoperative protocol could be beneficial. Our hypothesis is that offering a popsicle in the recovery room to patients after bariatric surgery will decrease POST and will increase quality of postoperative recovery. Patients undergoing elective bariatric surgery, between the 23 February 2015 and 3 April, were randomised to either the popsicle group or control group. Primary endpoint was the incidence of POST and secondly if a reduction in POST influences quality of recovery at the first day postoperative measured with the Bariatric Quality Of Recovery (

SUBMITTER: Pouwels S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6014958 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature