Physiotherapy in Patients in a Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

University of Oviedo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cardiac Surgery Patients

Treatments: Other: Observation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06402903

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Details and patient eligibility

About

Background. Cardiovascular diseases are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The management of these patients requires multidisciplinary therapeutic approaches. Physiotherapy plays a fundamental role in the postoperative management of patients undergoing cardiac surgery.

Objective: To analyse the relationship between the administration of a physiotherapy intervention and the time spent in the cardiac ICU and on the ward.

Method. Retrospective cohort study. The medical records of 110 patients undergoing cardiac surgery who received a Physiotherapy intervention during their stay in the Intensive Care Unit will be analysed. Data will be collected from patients admitted to the cardiac ICU in 2023. The variables assessed will be: length of stay in ICU and hospital admission (days), age (years completed), weight (kg) and sex. A one-factor analysis of variance will be performed to calculate the association between the variables and a linear regression analysis will be used to describe the hospital stay variables as a function of the other predictor variables.

Expected outcomes. Physiotherapy treatment in an Intensive Care Unit improves ICU and hospital stay times in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.

Enrollment: 110 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients diagnosed with cardiac pathology
• Undergoing cardiac surgery at the Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias between 1 January and 31 March 2023
• In the postoperative phase in the Intensive Care Unit and subsequently on transfer to the ward, they received physiotherapy treatment or not.
• That the period of stay in the ICU was less than 30 days.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with comorbidities prior to surgery that hindered independence from third parties in the performance of activities of daily living and ambulation; iii) patients with previous cardiac surgeries; and iv) patients whose study variables were not fully recorded in the Medical History.
• Patients with previous cardiac surgeries
• Patients whose study variables were not fully recorded in the Clinical History.

Trial design

110 participants in 1 patient group

Observacional group

Description:

The data will be collected in April 2024 at the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service of the Central University Hospital of Asturias (HUCA), belonging to Health Area IV of the Health Service of the Principality of Asturias.

Treatment:

Other: Observation