Preoperative Prehabilitation Program For Geriatric Patients in a Rural Healthcare Setting

NCT ID: NCT06518369

Last Updated: 2025-06-08

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

27 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-06-18

Study Completion Date

2025-06-04

Brief Summary

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The study will include patients who require elective major abdominal surgery for cancerous or non-cancerous conditions. The goal of the research is to assess the benefit of a prehabilitation program before surgery that includes nutrition, exercise, smoking cessation, and optimization of chronic disease. A group of 10 patients will take part in a prehabilitation program. These patients will be compared to 20 patients who received standard of care.

Detailed Description

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The study will include patients who require elective major abdominal surgery. The study will compare patients who received standard of care to patients who received a prehabilitation program before surgery.

The prehabilitation program will take place for 4-6 weeks before your surgery and will include:

* Review of frailty risk analysis calculator score obtained in the frailty study (#2212-74)
* Review of lab results including complete blood count, creatinine, albumin, and prealbumin
* Review of chronic conditions
* An office visit or telehealth visit to review instructions on nutrition, exercise, smoking cessation, and optimization of chronic disease.
* Drinking Surgery Immunonutrition shake twice daily for 5 days before surgery.
* Educational information and video instruction
* Weekly phone calls to motivate, ensure adherence, and assess progress.
* Measurements of hand grip strength and body weight

Conditions

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Surgery

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Non-intervention or standard of care group

20 Patients who received standard of care

No interventions assigned to this group

Prehabilitation Group

10 patients who take part in a prehabilitation program for 4-6 weeks before surgery

Prehabilitation

Intervention Type OTHER

Prehabilitation program for 4-6 weeks before surgery will include:

* Review of the frailty risk analysis calculator score obtained in the frailty study (#2212-74)
* Review of lab results including complete blood count, creatinine, albumin, and prealbumin
* Review of chronic conditions.
* An office visit or telehealth visit to review instructions on instructions on nutrition, exercise, smoking cessation, and optimization of chronic disease.
* Drinking surgery immunonutrition drinks twice daily for 5 days before surgery.
* Educational information and video instruction
* Weekly phone calls to motivate, ensure adherence, and assess progress.
* Measurements of hand grip strength and body weight

Interventions

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Prehabilitation

Prehabilitation program for 4-6 weeks before surgery will include:

* Review of the frailty risk analysis calculator score obtained in the frailty study (#2212-74)
* Review of lab results including complete blood count, creatinine, albumin, and prealbumin
* Review of chronic conditions.
* An office visit or telehealth visit to review instructions on instructions on nutrition, exercise, smoking cessation, and optimization of chronic disease.
* Drinking surgery immunonutrition drinks twice daily for 5 days before surgery.
* Educational information and video instruction
* Weekly phone calls to motivate, ensure adherence, and assess progress.
* Measurements of hand grip strength and body weight

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Subjects over age 60 who require elective major abdominal surgery

Exclusion Criteria

* pregnant women
Minimum Eligible Age

60 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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The Guthrie Clinic

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Nancy Georgetson, AGNP-C

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Robert Packer Hospital Sayre PA

Locations

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Robert Packer Hospital

Sayre, Pennsylvania, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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2401-02

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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