HIITing” the Mark: The developing an optimal high-intensity interval training (HIIT) protocol for improving fitness before abdominal surgery

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Prehabilitation; Abdominal Surgery; Complications after surgery; Physical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Other physical medicine / rehabilitation; Surgery - Other surgery

• Registration Number: ACTRN12618001643268
• Lead Sponsor: Dunedin Hospital

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-10-04
• Last Update Posted: 15 July 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 50

Inclusion Criteria

One of the following: 1.) Patients on the surgical waiting list for the following elective operative procedures: major bowel surgery, incisional hernia repair, cholecystectomy, hysterectomy and prostate surgery. 2.) Patients referred by a cardiologist, respiratory physician or geriatrician. Participants must be able to attend multiple supervised exercise sessions at the hospital and be identifiable from surgery waiting lists approximately two months before the estimated time of surgery.
; One of the following: 1.) Patients on the surgical waiting list for the following elective operative procedures: major bowel surgery, incisional hernia repair, cholecystectomy, hysterectomy and prostate surgery. 2.) Patients referred by a cardiologist, respiratory physician or geriatrician. Participants must be able to attend multiple supervised exercise sessions at the hospital and be identifiable from surgery waiting lists approximately two months before the estimated time of surgery.

Exclusion Criteria

1) Inability to exercise or to perform CPET
2) Contraindication to exercise diagnosed on CPET
3) Uncontrolled hypertension (Blood Pressure >180/100),
4) Active clinical angina (This does not include patients with a history of ischaemic heart disease who have no symptomatic angina on appropriate medical treatment, or no angina following a successful revascularization procedure)
5) myocardial infarction in the past three months,
6) uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmias,
7) aortic aneurysm >6.5cm,
8) severe obstructive pulmonary disease with a FEV1 < 1.0 litres,
9) inability to provide consent,
11) preoperative chemotherapy or radiotherapy which overlaps with the period of preoperative exercise.
; 1) Inability to exercise or to perform CPET
2) Contraindication to exercise diagnosed on CPET
3) Uncontrolled hypertension (Blood Pressure >180/100),
4) Active clinical angina (This does not include patients with a history of ischaemic heart disease who have no symptomatic angina on appropriate medical treatment, or no angina following a successful revascularization procedure)
5) myocardial infarction in the past three months,
6) uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmias,
7) aortic aneurysm >6.5cm,
8) severe obstructive pulmonary disease with a FEV1 < 1.0 litres,
9) inability to provide consent,
11) preoperative chemotherapy or radiotherapy which overlaps with the period of preoperative exercise.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified