Effects of Cardiac Rehabilitation on Postoperatory of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft.

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Complication of CABG

Treatments: Other: Combination of two techniques of physiotherapy; Other: Combination of three techniques of physiotherapy; Other: Combination of four techniques of physiotherapy; Other: standard therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01410253

GPPG090650

Details and patient eligibility

About

Randomized Clinical Trial to evaluate the use of different techniques of physical therapy on recovery of functional capacity, pulmonary function and respiratory muscle strength in the period of hospital stay after coronary artery bypass graft.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

-Patients are recruited from the waiting list for a first CABG intervention at the Porto Alegre Clinical Hospital.

Exclusion criteria

• chronic renal failure,
• unstable angina,
• moderate or severe valve disease,
• complex cardiac arrhythmia,
• stroke,
• inability to exercise the lower limbs,
• subjects with forced expiratory volume in 1 second less than 70% of predicted

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 4 patient groups, including a placebo group

Group 1

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Combination of four techniques of physiotherapy

Group 2

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Combination of three techniques of physiotherapy

Group 3

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Combination of two techniques of physiotherapy

Group 4

Placebo Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: standard therapy