Preoperative RESpiratory Training and MOBilization to Prevent Postoperative Pulmonary Complications in Patients Undergoing Thoracic Surgery

NCT ID: NCT05416411

Last Updated: 2023-12-27

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

436 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-07-20

Study Completion Date

2024-07-10

Brief Summary

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Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) are the most frequent complications occurring in patients undergoing thoracic surgery and they are associated with prolonged hospital stay, decreased survival and expanding medical costs. Implementation of structured and supervised exercise programs including endurance training (ET), respiratory muscle training (RMT) or a combination of both, within the short waiting period before surgery, has been shown to enhance patients' physical fitness, to provide protective effects against PPCs and therefore to spare health care resources by shortening intensive care unit (ICU) and hospital lengths of stay. More recently, a simple intervention consisting in patient's instruction and education about modifiable risk factors, optimal breathing pattern and the impact of physical exercise has emerged as a simple alternative intervention prevent PPCs, although the evidence is inconclusive.

Therefore, the investigators propose a multicentre randomized, open, blinded end point controlled trial testing the hypothesis that preoperative education and instruction focused on breathing exercise and endurance training reduce the occurrence of PPCs in patients undergoing thoracic or abdominal surgery.

Patients with Intermediate-to-high risks factors for PPCs will be randomized on a 1:1 basis into an intervention arm and a usual care arm (Control group). In the Education group, patients will be asked to use a flow resistive device (One set of 30 repetitions, two times a day and to increase their daily physical activities (\> 5'000 steps or equivalent) until surgery. Primary study endpoint will be the incidence of PPCs (e.g., atelectasis, pneumonia, respiratory failure) according to the European Perioperative Clinical Outcome definitions. Secondary outcomes will include non-respiratory complications, utilization of hospital resources (e.g., hospital length of stay, ICU admission),and preoperative changes in maximal inspiratory pressure \[MIP\]. Assuming a rate of 39% PPCs in the controls and a possible reduction to 26% in the intervention group, enrollment of 203 patients per group will provide 80% power with an alpha value of 0.05. Taking into account dropouts (5%) and in-hospital mortality rate (2%), a total of 436 surgical patients will be enrolled.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Postoperative Complications Procedure, Thoracic Surgical

Keywords

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prehabilitation

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Caregivers Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Usual Care

Patients who are candidates for thoracic resection surgeries will be advised to stay active and quit smoking.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Intervention group

Patients who are candidates for thoracic resection surgeries will be handed a flow resistive device that helps inspiratory muscle training (2\*30 repetitions a day for 7 days) and will be advised to walk 5000 steps a day.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Inspiratory muscle training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Patients will do inspiratory muscle training via a flow resistive device. Priorly, maximum inspiratory pressure will be measured. Afterwards, the training device will be set to 10% increased value of maximum inspiratory pressure (MIP), and the training will be completed two times and 30 repetitions a day during preoperative 7 days. Meanwhile patients will be advised to walk 5000 steps a day during the intervention period.

Interventions

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Inspiratory muscle training

Patients will do inspiratory muscle training via a flow resistive device. Priorly, maximum inspiratory pressure will be measured. Afterwards, the training device will be set to 10% increased value of maximum inspiratory pressure (MIP), and the training will be completed two times and 30 repetitions a day during preoperative 7 days. Meanwhile patients will be advised to walk 5000 steps a day during the intervention period.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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Walking (5000 steps/day)

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Adult patients (\> 18 years)
* Risk factors for PPCs (ARISCAT score \>27)
* Elective intra-abdominal surgery or intrathoracic surgery via an open or minimally-invasive approach, expected to last \> 120 min.

Exclusion Criteria

* Patients unable to understand the instructions and/or to perform the proposed training program (i.e., poor comprehension, chest pain)
* COPD GOLD Grade III and IV, lung fibrosis, documented bullae, severe emphysema, pneumothorax
* Patient with chest pain or at risk of pneumothorax
* Previous lung surgery
* Bilateral lung procedures
* Emergent surgery or organ transplant
* Planned mechanical ventilation after surgery
* Uncontrolled asthma
* Coronary heart disease with angina grade 3 or 4 Canadian Cardiovascular Society
* documented pulmonary arterial hypertension \>25mmHg mean pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP) at rest or \> 40 mmHg systolic PAP (estimated by ultrasound)
* Documented or suspected neuromuscular disease (thymoma, myasthenia, myopathies, muscular dystrophies, others)
* Intracranial injury or tumor
* Persistent hemodynamnic instability, intractable shock
* Pregnancy (excluded by anamnesis and/or laboratory analysis)
* Enrollment in another interventional study or refusal of informed consent
* Presence of one of the adverse events, listed as PPCs (aspiration, respiratory failure, pneumonia, atelectasis, cardiopulmonary edema, pleural effusion, pneumothorax)
* Pleural surgery only, sympathectomy surgery only, chest wall surgery only, mediastinal surgery only, lung transplantation
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Istanbul University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Emre Sertaç Bingül

Medical Doctor, Lecturer

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Emre S Bingul, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Istanbul University

Locations

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Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University, Faculty of Medicine

Istanbul, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status RECRUITING

Istanbul University Istanbul Faculty of Medicine

Istanbul, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status RECRUITING

Koc University, Faculty of Medicine

Istanbul, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Turkey (Türkiye)

Central Contacts

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Emre S Bingul, MD

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 00902124142000

Email: [email protected]

Zerrin Sungur, Prof

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 00902124142000

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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Fevzi Toraman, Prof

Role: primary

Zerrin Sungur, MD

Role: primary

Evren Şentürk, Prof

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

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2018-2/39

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id