Quality of Recovery After Robotic Surgery

In the researchers' words

Robotic approach to laparoscopic surgery has greatly facilitated undertaking complex surgery inside the abdominal cavity with ease. Robotic surgery is performed under general anaesthesia (GA), which is commonly administered either via the inhalational route or intravenous route. Currently, there is paucity of evidence regarding comprehensive patient outcome following robotic transabdominal surgery. The limited data that is available is restricted to specific outcome parameters such as hemodynamic profile, recovery times, and concomitant effects (post-operative nausea vomiting, pain). QoR (quality of recovery)-15 is a patient self- reported measurement of outcome to assess postoperative QoR. QoR-15 is a15-item questionnaire that assess physical and mental well-being of the patient after anesthesia and surgery. It is the first validated outcome assessment scale that has been evaluated using the Consensus-based Standards for the Selection of health Measurements Instruments (COSMIN) and fulfils the requirements for assessing QoR postoperatively. We plan to conduct this randomized controlled-trial to evaluate postoperative QoR using the QoR-15 questionnaire in patients undergoing robotic abdominal surgery under GA administered by routine techniques, namely, closed-loop anesthesia delivery system (CLADS) controlled total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) with propofol or inhalation…