Systematically improve respiratory symptoms among patients after visceral surgery and prevent respiratory infections. A pilot study
- Conditions
- visceral diseases, diseases of the oesophagus and the thyroid gland, patients before/after transplantation of liver, kidney or pancreas
- Registration Number
- DRKS00017834
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitätsklinikum Heidelberg Abteilung Allgemeinmedizin und Versorgungsforschung
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 105
Included are patients on visceral-surgical wards 4 and 8 with an indication for respiratory therapy. Patients need to be physically and psychologically able to consent to study participation and conducting respiratory therapy. Patients have to be at least 18 years old. They need to read and understand German. They have to be inpatients for at least 7 days to achieve meaningful results regarding the Intervention.
Excluded are patients who do not fulfill one or more inclusion criteria. Patients with cognitive disabilities are excluded as well as patients who are not allowed to use a respiratory trainer out of medical reasons. Patients with respiratory diseases will only be excluded if they are not allowed to use the respiratory trainer. A special circumstance of ward 4 is the Heidelberg interprofessional training ward (Heidelberger Interprofessionelle Ausbildungsstation HIPSTA). It comprises 2 rooms with 6 patients who are cared for by advanced medical and nursing students within a teaching project. Since the care situation at this ward is different from standard care, patients on HIPSTA are excluded.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Mean difference between T0 (pre-surgery) and T1 (7 days post-surgery) for participants in intervention and control group assessed with lung function diagnostic (vital capacity and inspiratory/exspiratory volume) controlled by T1 (post-surgery value) and duration of surgery.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method frequency of post-surgery pneumonia in intervention and control group according to documentation within 7 days post-surgery. Development of respiratory volume depending on frequency of therapy in the intervention group as documented in respiratory diary.