Technological Platforms and Telerehabilitation in Heart Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

In this randomised, double-blind, pilot study, the investigators aim to assess whether a telerehabilitation strategy could improve outcomes among patients with recent heart surgery. Included participants will receive a comprehensive rehabilitation programme comprised of physical therapy, nutritional counselling, psychological assistance in addition to standard medical care. After 12 sessions of physical therapy, patients will be randomised to receive telerehabilitation with a portable EKG device and a smartphone application or usual care. The primary endpoint for this study is the exercise capacity of included participants, which will be assessed using an ergospirometer at 4 and 8 weeks after randomisation.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Universidad de Valparaiso
• Collaborators: Fondo de Innovación para la Competitividad; Fundación Dr. Jorge Kaplan Meier; Hospital Dr. Gustavo Fricke

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult patients (>18 years old)

• Recent cardiac surgery (3 weeks)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Contraindication to physical exercise (unstable angina, acute heart failure, complex ventricular arrythmias, severe (>60mmHg) pulmonary hypertension, endocavitary thrombuses, recent deep venous thrombosis (1 month), severe obstructive cardiomyopathy, symptomatic aortic stenosis, musculoskeletal conditions that make exercise impossible)

• Parkinsons' Disease

• Severe dementia or major psychiatric comorbidities that make adherence or comprehension of the intervention impossible

• Refusal to participate