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CABGpreHAB - a Feasibility Study Protocol
Led by Rigshospitalet, Denmark · Updated on 2025-06-29
50
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
55 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
Patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD) awaiting coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery often face challenges like advanced age, frailty, comorbidities, and physical inactivity. These factors, combined with the physiological and psychological stress of surgery, can hinder postoperative recovery. Traditionally, strategies to improve surgical outcomes focus on the intra- and postoperative periods. However, the pre-surgery waiting period offers a "window of opportunity" for prehabilitation, which aims to enhance patients' functional capacity through exercise, nutrition, and psychological support. The CABGpreHAB feasibility study evaluates the feasibility of a home-based multimodal prehabilitation intervention for patients awaiting elective CABG surgery. This randomized pilot study compares the intervention plus usual care to usual care alone, assessing feasibility outcomes like recruitment, retention, attrition, fidelity, and adherence. The study aims to optimize a subsequent full-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT) and improve patient outcomes by leveraging the pre-surgery period for prehabilitation.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
CABGpreHAB - a Feasibility Study Protocol
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Planned to have elective isolated first-time CABG surgery.
- 18 years or older
- Two weeks or more before surgery
- Speaks and understands Danish.
- Gives written informed consent.
You will not qualify if you...
- Unstable angina pectoris and/or myocardial infarction during the last two weeks.
- Left main stem stenosis greater than 50%.
- Left ventricular ejection fraction less than 35%.
- Significant ventricular arrhythmia.
- Orthopedic or neurologic conditions preventing exercise training.
- Inability to attend the prehabilitation program due to physical limitations.
- Cognitive deficits disqualifying prehabilitation.
- Severe heart failure, NYHA Class IV.
- Lack of capacity to consent.
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
The Department of Heart and Lung Surgery, Copenhagen University hospital Rigshospitalet
Copenhagen, Denmark, 2100
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Research Team
D
Dorte Baek Olsen, PhD student
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
PREVENTION
Number of Arms
2
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