Physiotherapy in Patients in a Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

NCT ID: NCT06402903

Last Updated: 2024-05-22

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 110 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-05-06
• Study Completion Date: 2024-05-20

Brief Summary

Background. Cardiovascular diseases are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The management of these patients requires multidisciplinary therapeutic approaches. Physiotherapy plays a fundamental role in the postoperative management of patients undergoing cardiac surgery.

Objective: To analyse the relationship between the administration of a physiotherapy intervention and the time spent in the cardiac ICU and on the ward.

Method. Retrospective cohort study. The medical records of 110 patients undergoing cardiac surgery who received a Physiotherapy intervention during their stay in the Intensive Care Unit will be analysed. Data will be collected from patients admitted to the cardiac ICU in 2023. The variables assessed will be: length of stay in ICU and hospital admission (days), age (years completed), weight (kg) and sex. A one-factor analysis of variance will be performed to calculate the association between the variables and a linear regression analysis will be used to describe the hospital stay variables as a function of the other predictor variables.

Expected outcomes. Physiotherapy treatment in an Intensive Care Unit improves ICU and hospital stay times in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.

Conditions

Cardiac Surgery Patients

Study Design

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

Study Groups

Observacional group

The data will be collected in April 2024 at the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service of the Central University Hospital of Asturias (HUCA), belonging to Health Area IV of the Health Service of the Principality of Asturias.

Observation

Intervention Type: OTHER

The clinical, post-surgical and anthropometric variables of the patients, as well as the time spent in the Intensive Care Unit and on the hospital ward (in days) were collected in the Clinical Histories.

The collection of data from the Clinical Histories will be carried out by the principal investigator, an employee of the Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, in accordance with current data protection regulations, scrupulously complying with the anonymous collection of clinical data, and without collecting any data that could allow the identification of the patients whose data were collected.

The data from the Clinical Histories will be exported to an Excel file which will subsequently be anonymised. Access to the Excel file will require a password access that will be managed from a computer of the University of Oviedo (Department of Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties).

Interventions

Observation

The clinical, post-surgical and anthropometric variables of the patients, as well as the time spent in the Intensive Care Unit and on the hospital ward (in days) were collected in the Clinical Histories.

The collection of data from the Clinical Histories will be carried out by the principal investigator, an employee of the Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, in accordance with current data protection regulations, scrupulously complying with the anonymous collection of clinical data, and without collecting any data that could allow the identification of the patients whose data were collected.

The data from the Clinical Histories will be exported to an Excel file which will subsequently be anonymised. Access to the Excel file will require a password access that will be managed from a computer of the University of Oviedo (Department of Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties).

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients diagnosed with cardiac pathology
• Undergoing cardiac surgery at the Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias between 1 January and 31 March 2023
• In the postoperative phase in the Intensive Care Unit and subsequently on transfer to the ward, they received physiotherapy treatment or not.
• That the period of stay in the ICU was less than 30 days.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients with comorbidities prior to surgery that hindered independence from third parties in the performance of activities of daily living and ambulation; iii) patients with previous cardiac surgeries; and iv) patients whose study variables were not fully recorded in the Medical History.
• Patients with previous cardiac surgeries
• Patients whose study variables were not fully recorded in the Clinical History.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 80 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Oviedo

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Ruben Cuesta Barriuso

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

University of Oviedo

Oviedo, Principality of Asturias, Spain

Countries

Spain

Other Identifiers

FisCard

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id