A Real-world Study to Examine the Relationship Between Simple Physical Functioning Tests, Complications and Recovery Following Abdominal Surgery.

University Hospital of Limerick

Status: Completed

Conditions: Physical Activity; Abdomen; Surgery--Complications

Treatments: Other: Nil intervention

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03930784

043/16

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background: Complications impact physical and psychological recovery and are associated with financial cost. General physical function has not been studied in relation to the development of surgical complications in this cohort.

Objective: Evaluate the physical function performance differences between those who develop complications and those who do not and determine their impact on recovery.

Design: Observational Setting: The pre-operative assessment unit in the University Hospital Limerick. Patients: Forty-nine participants who were planned to undergo abdominal surgery were recruited & 43 completed the study.

Main outcome measure: Demographics, physical function, lung function, surgical parameters, complications and recovery data was collected.

Enrollment: 49 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Written consent to participate in the study
• Eighteen years or above
• Planned for elective abdominal surgery
• American Society of Anaesthesia physical status score <4.

Exclusion criteria

• Abdominal surgery within one year prior to study entry
• Unable or unwilling to give informed consent
• Inability (cognitive) to perform the pre-operative tests, as characterised by inability to understand the information in the patient information leaflet
• Current systemic acute illness
• Scheduled for non-abdominal surgery
• Unstable angina or myocardial infarction in the previous month
• Physical limitation precluding inability to participate in pre-operative tests.

Trial design

49 participants in 1 patient group

Participants

Description:

Divided for analysis as having suffered post-operative complications or not

Treatment:

Other: Nil intervention