Preoperatively Orientation in Cardiac Surgery: Nurses Intervention on Patients Recovery

Heart Valve Diseases Clinical Trial

Official title:

Preoperatively Orientation in Cardiac Surgery: Nurses Intervention on Patients Recovery

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01559610
• Other study ID #: UP 4150/08
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: February 23, 2012
• Last updated: March 19, 2012
• Start date: August 2008
• Est. completion date: March 2009

Study information

• Verified date: March 2012
• Source: Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Brazil: Ethics Committee
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the guidelines preoperative performed by a nurse contribute to the recovery of the patient submitted to cardiac surgery compared with the guidelines for routine.

Description:

This is a randomized clinical trial, which included patients submitted to cardiac surgery on both sexes. They are divided in two groups: control group and intervention group.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 180
• Est. completion date: March 2009
• Est. primary completion date: March 2009
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Primary Elective Cardiac Surgical Procedures

• Age above 18 years old

• At least 24 hours of hospitalization before the procedure

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who do not accept and do not signed a consenting term

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Supportive Care

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Triple Vessel
• Heart Valve Diseases

Intervention

Other:
• Intervention Group
The patients were instructed by a nurse

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Brazil	Institute of Cardiology	Porto Alegre	Rio Grande do Sul

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Brazil, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	knowledge	three questions applied on the second day of recovery at the nursery room, after the intensive care unit discharge,about type of anesthesia,endotracheal tube function and time of healing of the sternum bone.The questions had only one correct alternative.Since the randomization until the questionnaire,the study follow up took seven days.For the analysis,answers of the questionnaire were separated and the number of answers for each,and divided into the two groups.The results were presented in graphic and tables.	seven days	Yes
Secondary	satisfaction	five questions applied on the second day of recovery at the nursery room.The patients had to graduate their level of satisfaction from unsatisfied to very satisfied according to orientation received about the prior,intraoperative and recovering period of surgery as well as the nursery and medical orientation provided.Since the randomization until the questionnaire,the study follow up took seven days.For the analysis answers of the questionnaire were separated and the number of answers for each,and divided into the two groups.The results were presented in graphic and tables.	seven days	Yes