The "Seamless" Patient:From Preoperative Preparation to Postoperative Rehabilitation

ConditionHeart Failure
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorHannover Medical School

About this trial

The "seamless" patient: from preoperative preparation to postoperative rehabilitation.

The effects of digital services for perioperative care of patients undergoing cardiac surgery will be investigated

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Patient is capable of giving consent;

planned, elective cardiac surgery (coronary bypass surgery and heart valve surgery incl. combination surgery). The planned surgery can be performed with or without a heart-lung machine.

Minimally invasive procedures may also be explicitly included in the study.

Disqualifiers

Emergency care;

congenital heart defects;

age less than 18 years;

patient unable to give consent;

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • pre rehabilitation

    Other intervention

    preoperative pre-rehabilitation (respiratory training, exercise therapy). Establish an individualized rehabilitation plan and postoperative communication via telephone or app

Treatment groups

300 Participants
are divided into 3 treatment groups
Group A: Standard of care"No intervention 0 interventions
Group B: Intensified patient educationOther 1 intervention
Group C: Intensified education on new media (mobile app)Other 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Quality of life of patient via questionnaire

via questionnaire

Time frame
6 month

Secondary outcomes

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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