Secondary Prevention After Coronary Bypass Surgery

Jeffrey Kramer, MD

Status: Completed

Conditions: Coronary Artery Disease

Treatments: Other: Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00843089

11562 (Registry Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Despite immediate symptomatic success after coronary bypass surgery in patients with coronary artery disease, this effect is not sustained over time since risk factors for coronary artery disease are still in place. The role of secondary prevention becomes increasingly important as it can potentially decrease or eliminate the need for another intervention in these high risk subjects. This project seeks to evaluate the effect of emphasizing secondary prevention measures in this patient population during hospital admission and through six months post-discharge.

Enrollment: 115 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Subjects over the age of 18 who will undergo a CABG procedure and who have given written informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects under the age of 18 or who are unable to give consent on their own behald

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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115 participants in 2 patient groups

1

No Intervention group

Description:

Standard care

2

Experimental group

Description:

Educational session with pharmacist, nutritionist, and cardiac rehabilitation nurse

Treatment:

Other: Education