Physical and Functional Recovery From Cardiac Surgery in Hospitalized Patients: A Feasibility Pilot Study
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Conditions studied: Coronary Artery Disease, Mitral Valve Insufficiency, Aortic Valve Stenosis, Aortic Valve Regurgitation, Mitral Valve Stenosis, Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Triple Vessel
In brief
Ambulation following surgery has been found to be beneficial for patients; however, nurses and doctors struggle with getting post-operative, hospitalized patients to walk on their own. One promising strategy to address this might be an ambulation orderly, an employee whose single responsibility is to assure that patients walk 3-4 times per day. However, the effect of the ambulation orderly on post-operative physical activity has not yet been described. It is important to quantify what the ambulation orderly does in order to assess if this is an effective method for helping patients walk. As a result, the investigators will perform a pilot randomized controlled trial to test the effects of an ambulation orderly in patients hospitalized with recent cardiac surgery. Half of the patients will be assigned to walk with the ambulation orderly 3-4 times/day and the control group will be given standard nursing encouragement and assistance and encouragement to walk. The investigators will evaluate the average total daily step counts (over the hospital course, usually 4-7 days) and the change in walking distance between a baseline and a final 6 minute walk test. The investigators will also evaluate exercise physiologic parameters (heart rate, oxygen saturation) during ambulation, patient functional independence, and patient satisfaction.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02375282
- Run by
- Baystate Medical Center
- People needed
- 36
- Starts
- 2015-03-01
- Expected to finish
- 2016-07-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2017-11-06
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Patients who have had a cardiac surgery procedure (coronary artery bypass grafting surgery or valve surgery). Must be ambulatory prior to surgery
You may not qualify if…
- Unable to consent, cognitively impaired, and patients unable to walk prior to surgery
Where it is running
- Baystate Medical Center — Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
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