Cooke, C. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9003-3353
Kennedy, E. D.
Foo, I.
Nimmo, S.
Speake, D.
Paterson, H. M. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4698-0131
Ventham, N. T. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8182-2812
Article History
Received: 18 September 2018
Accepted: 16 January 2019
First Online: 5 February 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: HMP, DS, SN, and IF are lead investigators in a UK National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment (NIHR-HTA)-funded UK multicenter randomized controlled trial of perioperative intravenous lidocaine in colorectal surgery (ALLEGRO: a placebo-controlled rAndomized trial of intravenous Lidocaine in acceLErating Gastrointestinal Recovery after cOlorectal surgery; EudraCT No. 2017-003835-12), which opened in August 2018 and will randomize 562 patients undergoing laparoscopic colorectal resection, measuring GI-3 return of GI function as the primary endpoint. Further details are available at: ExternalRef removed. None of the authors have any commercial interest in perioperative IV lidocaine.
: This manuscript has not been submitted elsewhere. An abstract based on this data was presented as a poster at the 2017 annual meeting of the Association of ColoProctologists of Great Britain and Ireland in Bournemouth, UK.
: This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by the authors.
: For this type of study informed consent is not required.