Pre-operative Physiotherapy to Prevent Post-operative Complications

Rambam Health Care Campus

Status: Completed

Conditions: Abdominal Surgery

Treatments: Other: Pre Operative

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01389648

physiotherapyCTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess the roll of pre-operative chest physiotherapy, in addition to the usual care given after major abdominal surgery, in the prevention of post-operative respiratory complications.

Enrollment: 157 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Major abdominal surgery

Exclusion criteria

• Respiratory Disease
• Pregnancy
• Mental Disease
• Dementia
• Alzheimer's Disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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157 participants in 2 patient groups

Pre Operative

Experimental group

Description:

Pre operative chest physiotherapy treatment

Treatment:

Other: Pre Operative

usual care

No Intervention group