Abstract
Objectives
The aim of this study was to determine whether walking at 4 h after surgery as a more aggressive way to proceed with early mobilization could be a safe approach compared with the patients who walked the day after surgery.
Methods
We encouraged patients who had lobectomy for non-small-cell lung cancer at Kansai Medical University Hospital to walk at 4 h after surgery and start pulmonary rehabilitation between January 2003 and June 2005. A group of 36 patients walked at 4 h after surgery. We retrospectively reviewed the postoperative courses of the patients and compared them with 50 patients who walked the next day during the same period.
Results
No patient had major trouble with chest drainage tube, and no patients fell when walking at 4 h. Amount of drainage, changing rates of the heart load during the walking, and pain scores after walking did not show significant differences in patients walking at 4 h and those walking the next day. Although four patients who walked the next day had an arterial oxygen partial pressure/inspired oxygen concentration ratio of <300 on day 3, none in the patients walking at 4 h had a ratio below this level. Among the patients walking at 4 h, 24 (67%) needed oxygenation for less than 2 days compared with 17 (34%) of the patients walking the next day.
Conclusion
Walking at 4 h after lobectomy in patients with non-small-cell lung cancers is a safe approach to starting pulmonary rehabilitation after surgery.
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Kaneda, H., Saito, Y., Okamoto, M. et al. Early postoperative mobilization with walking at 4 hours after lobectomy in lung cancer patients. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 55, 493–498 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-007-0169-8
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