CHF Inpatient Ambulation Trial

Completed

Conditions studied: Heart Failure

In brief

There is an overwhelming amount of deconditioning that occurs during the hospitalization to a patient admitted with a primary diagnosis of congestive heart failure. The goals of this study are to determine if monitored activity and aggressive mobility provides improved outcomes in hospitalized heart failure patients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02828553

Run by

Lancaster General Hospital

People needed

352

Starts

2016-10-01

Expected to finish

2018-12-31

Last updated by the study team

2019-08-30

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Diagnosis of heart failure
• The heart group as attending or consultant
• Patient on 5 West at the time of admission
• Admission diagnosis of heart failure
• Age ≥ 18
• Initial assessment completed within 10 hours of admission by a registered nurse

You may not qualify if…

• Patient admitted from acute rehabilitation or skilled nursing facility
• Altered weight bearing or unable to complete initial 2 minute walk test
• Unwilling or unable to participate or consent
• Acute delirium or dementia by history
• Hospice or actively dying
• Ventricular assist device or listed for heart transplantation
• Inotrope dependence
• Active ischemia
• Heart rate (HR) <50 or >130 at rest
• Blood pressure (BP) <80 or >180 at rest
• Pulse oximetry <88% at rest
• Patient is in isolation for multi-drug resistant organism such as MRSA or C-diff

Where it is running

• Lancaster General Hospital — Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States

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