Feasibility of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Without Prophylactic Abdominal Drainage Tubes After Laparoscopic Distal Gastrectomy For Gastric Cancer

Nasogastric decompression tube is not placed preoperatively; If necessary, nasogastric decompression tube is placed after anesthesia induction during surgery and removed when the reconstruction is performed; No abdominal drainage and nasojejunal feeding tubes were placed intraoperatively; None of these 3 tubes were present postoperatively.

Nasogastric decompression tube is not placed preoperatively; If necessary, nasogastric decompression tube is placed after anesthesia induction during surgery and removed when the reconstruction is performed; Nasojejunal feeding tube is not placed intraoperatively; 1 prophylactic abdominal drainage tube is placed at the duodenal stump for LDG and retained postoperatively.