Impact of personal outfit on postoperative mobility, physical and mental recovery after abdominal surgery (Dress-Up trial)
- Conditions
- Patients scheduled for elective minimally invasive (laparoscopic or robot-assisted) gastric, pancreatic, liver and colorectal surgery
- Registration Number
- DRKS00033488
- Lead Sponsor
- Klinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral- und Thoraxchirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 100
Patients scheduled for elective minimally invasive (laparoscopic or robot-assisted) gastric, pancreatic, liver and colorectal surgery
- Ability to mobilize (physically and psychologically)
- No contraindications to wear activity tracker devices
- Prolonged Intensive Care Unit (ICU) stay > POD 1/ prolonged ventilation without extubation on the day of surgery
- Conversion to open surgery
- > 2 abdominal drains, urinary catheter > POD 1
- VAC therapy system
- Surgical site infection (SSI>/=A1)
- No personal clothing
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - Average step count on the second and third postoperative days (using activity tracker)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - Activity time (POD 1 - POD 5)<br>- 30-day mortality, and 30-day overall morbidity according to the Clavien-Dindo classification<br>- Day of first removal of operating room gown<br>- Day of removal of the last abdominal drain<br>- Day of removal of the urinary catheter<br>- Tolerance of oral intake<br>- Highest mobility level measured by the CHARMI®-Index (Liebl et al. PLOS One 2016)<br>- Additional patient-reported outcomes<br>- Additional psychological endpoints using an extended study-associated questionnaire<br>- Nursing case report <br>