The PREHAAAB Trial: Multimodal Prehabilitation for Patients Awaiting Open Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

152 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-09-30

Study Completion Date

2027-09-30

Brief Summary

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An abdominal aortic aneurysm is a condition where the major artery in the abdomen becomes larger than usual. Over time, as it continues to grow, the wall of the artery weakens and there is a risk that the artery can burst causing internal bleeding and death. Aortic aneurysms are fixed when they reach a certain size to prevent that outcome. The surgery to fix them is a major, high-risk surgery that is associated with a lot of complications and a slow recovery back to normal. The time between diagnosis and surgery is called the pre-operative period and is a key time to optimize a patient's health in order to ensure the best possible outcomes following surgery. This study will look at whether a multidisciplinary pre-operative program that involves exercise training, nutritional advice and supplementation, and psychosocial support will reduce complications following surgery. This program should decrease complications and speed up a patient's recovery back to normal after surgery. It is also a way for patients to take ownership of their disease and play an active role in their health care journey. The benefits from this program will go beyond the pre-operative time frame, as the habits and knowledge gained will improve their health over their lifetime. This study will also assess the economic impact and cost of a program like this.

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Detailed Description

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Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) are asymptomatic until they rupture, which carries an 80- 90% mortality. Therefore, AAA are surgically repaired when they reach 5.0 cm in women and 5.5cm in men. Despite advances to surgical technique and peri-operative care, open surgical repair still carries a high incidence of post-operative complications of 30-40%, and a long recovery period. This is largely because the surgery itself is major abdominal surgery, and these patients often have significant comorbidities and low functional status. Multimodal prehabilitation (MP) is a concept that uses the preoperative timeframe (between diagnosis and surgery) to optimize physical, nutritional, and emotional wellbeing to improve a patient's functional status and ability to withstand the stress of surgery. To date, there is no study evaluating the effect of MP on post-operative complications following open AAA repair.

The primary objective of this trial is to determine if MP will decrease complications as measured by the comprehensive complication index following open AAA repair compared to standard of care. This trial will also assess the effect of MP on functional capacity, hospital length of stay, 30-day mortality and health related quality of life, as well as to assess cost effectiveness, adherence, and fidelity to the intervention.

Conditions

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Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Multimodal Prehabilitation

Participants in the intervention group will undergo, in addition to the standard of care, 6+/-1 weeks of a personalized multimodal prehabilitation program. The interventions included will be patient-centered, aiming to optimize patients' preoperative health status while enhancing their empowerment and engagement.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Multimodal Prehabilitation

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

EXERCISE

* Supervised exercise

* High intensity interval training
* Strength exercise
* Home-based exercise / promotion of physical activity

* Low-moderate intensity aerobic training
* Inspiratory muscle training
* Low-moderate intensity strength training

NUTRITION: nutrition education and optimization. Intake of 0.4g/kg of whey isolate after every supervised training.

PSYCHOSOCIAL: mindfulness, cognitive reframing and coping strategies.

Control group (standard of care)

Participants in the control group will receive the standard of care. This will include comorbidity optimization, anemia correction and smoking cessation advice if deemed appropriate.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Multimodal Prehabilitation

EXERCISE

* Supervised exercise

* High intensity interval training
* Strength exercise
* Home-based exercise / promotion of physical activity

* Low-moderate intensity aerobic training
* Inspiratory muscle training
* Low-moderate intensity strength training

NUTRITION: nutrition education and optimization. Intake of 0.4g/kg of whey isolate after every supervised training.

PSYCHOSOCIAL: mindfulness, cognitive reframing and coping strategies.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Participants older than 50 years of age awaiting elective open AAA repair with AAA diameter ≤6.9cm. Participants should have the ability to give informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria

* Participants undergoing thoracic, thoracoabdominal and/or perivisceral AAA repair.
* Participants with ruptured or symptomatic AAA.
* Participants with AAA maximal diameter ≥7cm.
* Physical inability to exercise: severe osteoarthritis, musculoskeletal or neurological impairment that precludes exercise.
* Contraindication to exercise: rest systolic blood pressure ≥ 180 mmHg and/or diastolic ≥ 100 mmHg, uncontrolled atrial or ventricular arrythmias or proven exercise induced arrhythmias, unstable angina, unstable or acute heart failure, severe symptomatic valvular stenosis, dynamic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction or other comorbidities that imply clinical instability.
* Cognitive impairment that would impede understanding of study procedures, informed consent or study questionnaires or the inability to effectively communicate in English/French/Spanish/Catalan.

Minimum Eligible Age

50 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No