Does respiratory muscle and general exercise training before open heart surgery improve outcomes in frail older adults
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Cardiovascular - Other cardiovascular diseasesOpen Heart SurgeryPhysical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Physiotherapy
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12616000435482
- Lead Sponsor
- Alison Mahoney
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot yet recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 60
Inclusion Criteria
*Age 75 years or older with clinically diagnosed frailty according to the Clinical Frailty Scale
*Waiting open coronary artery bypass surgery or valvular surgery
*Written informed consent by patient
Exclusion Criteria
*Age under 75 years
*Unable to provide informed consent and/or are unable to participate due to cognitive issues or neurological impairment
*Surgery booked earlier than 2 weeks from assessment
*Severe bullous emphysema and / or previous spontaneous pneumothorax
*Severe osteoporosis with high risk of rib fracture with inspiratory pressures
*Patients deemed medically inappropriate by treating medical staff due to
haemodynamic instability, unstable angina or any other reason
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Hospital length of stay. This will be assessed by the principal research physiotherapist by monitoring of participants during their hospital stay.[It will be measured from the participant's hospital admission until hospital discharge.];Post-operative Pulmonary Complications. This will be assessed by the principal research physiotherapist by review of hospital records and monitoring during the participants stay in hospital. Post-operative pulmonary complications will be defined according to The Melbourne Group Scale.[It will be measured from immediately post-surgery until hospital discharge.]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method