Patient Recovery From Heart Surgery During the Covid-19 Pandemic (CardiacCovid)

Barts & The London NHS Trust

Status

Completed

Conditions

Cardiac Surgery

COVID

Treatments

Other: Cardiac surgery

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04366167

132127

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will describe and explore the recovery process of patients undergoing cardiac surgery during the covid-19 pandemic. This will include mortality, morbidity, health-related quality of life, event-specific distress and depression.

Full description

The overall aim of this study is to describe and explore the recovery process of patients undergoing cardiac surgery during the covid-19 pandemic. This will include mortality, morbidity, health-related quality of life, event-specific distress and depression.

All adult patients having cardiac surgery during the pandemic at St Bartholomew's Hospital will be approached to join this study. As of the end of March this is this is approximately 20 operations a week. Questionnaires will be administered at five time points alongside a review of clinical notes.

Appropriate descriptive and summative statistics will be used to analyse outcomes. If sample size is adequate, possible associations/effect of the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on each of the recovery parameters included in the study will be determined. The differences in outcomes between those with and without covid-19 may also be analysed if the sample size is adequate. Bias and loss to follow-up in observational cohort studies has been considered.

Enrollment

253 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 120 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Undergoing cardiac surgery during the Covid-19 pandemic (end date as yet unknown but inferred when elective surgery is reinstated)
Discharge from hospital where operation was performed is being planned
Able and willing to give informed consent

Exclusion criteria

Unable or unwilling to give written informed consent. This includes patients who are being transferred to another hospital and are considered too vulnerable or unwell to be approached (based on clinical judgement of the clinical care team)
Unable or unwilling to give and/or complete the questionnaires
Inability to understand written and/or verbal English