FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT FOR SURGERY BY A TIMED WALK (FAST Walk)

Unity Health Toronto

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Postoperative Complications; Surgery-Complications

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06412367

23-065

Details and patient eligibility

About

The FAST Walk study aims to determine whether a walking test called the 6-minute walk test (6MWT) can help identify people who are more likely to experience complications after surgery. This test will be completed before surgery. We hope that the results of this study will help improve care for patients having major surgery in the future.

Enrollment: 1,672 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Age ≥40 years
2. ≥1 risk factors for postoperative complications
3. Elective non-cardiac surgery with expected post-surgery stay ≥2 days
4. Preoperative 6MWT is feasible
5. Working knowledge of official language(s) in country of study recruitment

Exclusion criteria

1. Endovascular surgery
2. Lower limb orthopedic surgery
3. Contraindications to 6MWT