Evaluation of Preoperative Acceptance of Proactive Palliative Care Intervention

NCT ID: NCT05575791

Last Updated: 2023-02-14

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Total Enrollment: 100 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-12-01
• Study Completion Date: 2023-11-30

Brief Summary

Advances in medicine have led to an increased life expectancy even with complex disease courses of malignant diseases.

This leads to frequent critical situations for patients and high risk surgical interventions. The majority of patients and their practitioners are not prepared for the consequences of a complex and possibly fatal course.

Palliative medicine makes it possible to anticipate the further course of the disease. As a result, palliative medicine has become increasingly important. The beginning of palliative medical interventions has extended from accompaniment limited to the dying phase to earlier phases of the disease.

An early integration of palliative medicine showed a positive effect on the quality of life, the degree of depression and survival in patients suffering from cancer, for example. Furthermore, patients were more able to accept a change in therapy goal at the end of life. Similar results were shown for patients with a non-malignant severe disease such as COPD or heart failure.

What needs further investigating is how to adequately screen and identify the patient populations who could benefit from early palliative care, so that they are prepared for potentially critical and life-threatening situations.

The investigator's objective is therefore whether the Anesthesiology Outpatient Clinic is a suitable screening location for initiating early integrated palliative care for patients with a serious, life-shortening illness and a high perioperative risk.

Conditions

Cancer; Heart Failure; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Postoperative Complications

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• over 18 years
• one elective operation with medium or high cardiac risk

And in addition at least one of the following criteria:

• serious comorbidity pulmonary: Emphysema and / or COPD >= 2 after GOLD cardiac: NYHA > = 2
• and / or a metastatic malignancy
• ASA physical status classification >= 3 and pre-frail or frail

Exclusion Criteria

• legal care
• Emergency operation
• any reasons which contradict inclusion in studies , e.g. cognitive deficit and lack of language skills
• Pregnant / breastfeeding women

• Minimum Eligible Age: 19 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Charite University, Berlin, Germany

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Sascha Treskatsch

Univ.-Prof. Dr. med.

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Department of Anesthesia and operative intensive Care, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité - University Hospital Berlin

Steglitz, State of Berlin, Germany

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Germany

Facility Contacts

Sascha Treskatsch, MD

Role: primary

sascha.tresktasch@charite.de

004930-450 551522

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Other Identifiers

EA1/292/20

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id