1Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, En Chu Kong Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2Department of Cosmetic Science, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taoyuan, Taiwan
3School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Raiwan, Taichung, Taiwan
【Summary】
Although complications are considerably less common today, historical data would suggest that approximately one in four patients reports significant symptoms after gastric surgery; in 2 to 5 percent, these symptoms are disabling.Gastrointestinal surgery alters the structure and physiological function of the gastrointestinal system, probably affects patient recovery, prolongs hospital stay,and increases cost. Therefore the purpose of this review is to search various ways, including Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and non-invasive treatment of transcutaneous electro acupuncture and external treatment for patient after gastrectomy treatment and enhancing the recovery rate through the survey of Chinese Medicine literature. So it will probably provide patient and doctor with different Complementary and Alternative Medicine to accelerate bowel function recovery and reduce hospital stay, which satisfies the concept of enhanced recovery after surgery. Besides, Chinese Medicine could be considered to be applied on other abdominal surgeries as well.
Keywords:gastric cancer, gastrectomy, ileus , Chinese medicine, acupuncture