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Approximately 70,000 cardiac valve surgeries are performed in China every year. Although guidelines or consensus recommendations recommend perioperative rehabilitation after valve surgery, clinical studies are still lacking, especially for Chinese patients. The investigators hope to find out whether a comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation program can improve the postoperative mortality, complications and length of stay m as well as anxiety, depression and quality of life, after heart valve surgery. A singlecenter, randomized clinical trial, PORT study, aims to investigate whether cardiac rehabilitation in addition to usual care is superior to treatment as usual after heart valve surgery. The trial will randomly allocate 800 patients after inclusion screening, 1:1 intervention to control group, using central randomization, and blinded outcome assessment and statistical analyses. The intervention consists of rehabilitation education, inspiratory muscle training (IMT), active cycle of breathing techniques (ACBT), and early mobilization (EM). The primary outcome of this study will be a composite of in-hospital all-cause mortality, the incidence of postoperative pulmonary complications, and the ratio of postoperative hospitalization > 7 days. The secondary outcomes will be (1) SICU days of stay; (2) days of bed rest; (3) days of hospital length of stay; (4) all-cause death in 3 months; (5) anxiety measured by Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7) and depression measured by Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) in 3 months. (6) quality of life measured by the Short Form 36 (SF-36) in 3 months.


Clinical Trial Description

The PORT study is a randomized, open-label, controlled trial using assessor blinding and intention-to-treat analysis. To date, no high-quality study has prospectively examined the impact of perioperative CR in the Chinese population undergoing cardiac surgery. Thus, the PORT trial has been designed to address a cardiac rehabilitation study in line with the actual situation in China. The investigators have used the Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Intervention Trials (SPIRIT) guidelines in reporting this clinical trial. Eligible patients are invited to a face-to-face meeting to confirm study eligibility and introduce the study objectives. The screened candidates will sign the written informed consent after they confirm their willingness to participate. Baseline data are collected subsequently. Then, the intervention group will receive perioperative rehabilitation interventions targeted at the optimization of the postoperative outcomes, This specialized approach, the PORT protocol, contains four key elements: education, inspiratory muscle training (IMT), active cycle of breathing techniques (ACBT), and early mobilization (EM). Patients will be evaluated during hospitalization for study outcomes and 3 months after surgery. After collection of baseline data, central randomization is conducted on a web-based interface (http://crdms.echobelt.org/) using a computer-generated randomized treatment allocation schedule. The randomization is stratified based on patients' age (<60, 60-75, and >75 years), left ventricular ejection fraction (<40%, 40%-50%, and >50%), and lung function (GOLD stage 1, 2, 3 and 4) with a permuted scheme with blocks of varying sizes, which is concealed from the investigators to avoid selection bias. Thus, neither investigators and patients nor relatives can influence the group the patients are allocated. Personal information about potential and enrolled patients will be collected electronically and shared in a database accessible only within the project group for those responsible for patient inclusion, in order to protect confidentiality before, during, and after the trial. The investigators are performing a randomized trial stating that the mean in the intervention and the control groups are the same with a power of 95%, and a type I error probability of 5%. Data from the pilot study (to be submitted) showed that the incidence in the primary endpoint was 13.56% (intervention group) versus 21.21% (control group). The inclusion of 400 participants is needed in the experimental intervention group, and 400 in the control group (a total of 800 participants) to be able to reject the null hypothesis. The trial will randomly allocate 800 patients, 1:1 intervention to the control group, using central randomization, blinded outcome assessment, and statistical analyses. The intervention consists of education, inspiratory muscle training (IMT), active cycle of breathing techniques (ACBT), and early mobilization (EM), intervention versus treatment as usual, with blinded outcome assessment. ;


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NCT number NCT03709511
Study type Interventional
Source Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital
Contact Jiyan Chen, M.D.
Phone 02083827812
Email chenjiyandr@126.com
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date January 1, 2019
Completion date December 30, 2023

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