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- Clinical Trial NCT04187664
Extended Care in High-Risk Surgical Patient (EXCARE) Pathway in High-risk Surgical Population (EXCARE)
Implementation of the Extended Care in High-Risk Surgical Patient (EXCARE) Pathway in High-risk Non-cardiac Surgical Population: Impact on Morbidity and 30-day Mortality
High risk surgical patients are subject to complications that impact rehabilitation time, overall mortality and costs. This project proposes the creation of a post-surgery care pathway called Extended Care in High-Risk Surgical Patients (EXCARE) in the form of coordinated multiprofessional actions dedicated to high-risk non-cardiac surgical patients with the aim of improving the postoperative outcomes. The proposed pathway comprises a range of actions that include individual patient-centered risk assessment by the Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine Service (SAMPE) Risk Model (30-day probability of death), specialized care in Post-Anesthetic and Intensive Care Units (ICU), and also in the surgical wards performed by the nursing, anesthesia, clinic and surgery teams.
This is a quasi-experiment in which the clinical effectiveness of the extended care will be analyzed using a before-and-after comparison, the primary outcome being 30-day surgical mortality and postoperative complications at day 7 defined by PostOperative Morbidity Survey (POMS), a reliable and valid survey of short-term postoperative morbidity in major elective surgery. POMS domains evaluated are: pulmonary, infectious, renal, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, neurological, haematological and wound complications.
Secondary outcomes include 30-day mortality, hospital length of stay, number of Rapid Response Team calls, unplanned postoperative ICU admission, surgical reintervention, failure to rescue and hospital readmission. High-sensitive cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) levels will be measured before surgery and daily until 48 hours postoperatively to identify patients with myocardial injury (defined as any hs-cTn concentration greater than the 99th-percentile upper reference limit).
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Study Type
Enrollment (Anticipated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Luciana Cadore Stefani, PhD
- Phone Number: +555133598226
- Email: lpstefani@hcpa.edu.br
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Adriene Stahlschmidt, MD
- Phone Number: +555133598226
- Email: adristah@gmail.com
Study Locations
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Rio Grande Do Sul
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Porto Alegre, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil, 90035007
- Recruiting
- Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre
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Contact:
- Luciana Cadore Stefani, PhD
- Phone Number: +555133598226
- Email: lpstefani@hcpa.edu.br
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Principal Investigator:
- Luciana Cadore Stefani, PhD
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Sub-Investigator:
- Adriene Stahlschmidt, MD
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age over 16 years;
- Classified as high-risk by the SAMPE Risk Model (30-day mortality >5%);
- Underwent non-cardiac surgeries at the main operating room unit;
- Referred postoperatively to the postanesthesia care unit or intensive care unit.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients undergoing procedures performed outside the operating room unit (outpatient, diagnostic, performed under local anesthesia);
- Patients undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass and / or referred to the cardiac ICU postoperatively;
- Patients undergoing organ transplantation;
- Low-risk patients (classified as <5% probability of death within 30 days by the SAMPE Risk Model).
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
- Allocation: N/A
- Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: EXCARE Pathway Group
The proposed pathway comprises a range of actions that include individual patient-centered risk assessment by the SAMPE Risk Model (30-day probability of death), specialized care in Post-Anesthetic and Intensive Care Units, and also in the surgical wards performed by the nursing, anesthesia, clinic and surgery teams.
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Nursing and medical staff will monitor patients vital signs and clinical deterioration triggers twice as often as in previous ward care.
High-risk patients will have their high-sensitivity cardiac troponin tested preoperatively and daily for the first 48h postoperatively
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Mortality
Time Frame: 30 days
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In-hospital mortality within 30 days
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30 days
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Postoperative complications
Time Frame: 7 days
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Postoperative complications within 7-days defined by Post-operative Morbidity Survey (POMS) domains
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7 days
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Length of stay (LOS)
Time Frame: 6 months
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Hospital length of stay (days)
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6 months
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Unplanned intensive care unit (ICU) admission
Time Frame: 30 days
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Admission to ICU due to clinical deterioration within 30 days
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30 days
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Calls to rapid response team (RRT)
Time Frame: 30 days
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Number of calls to the RRT within 30 days
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30 days
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Surgical reintervention
Time Frame: 30 days
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Number of surgical reinterventions within 30 days
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30 days
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Hospital readmission
Time Frame: 30 days
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Hospital readmission within 30 days
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30 days
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Failure to rescue
Time Frame: 30 days
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Death after a treatable complication within 30 days
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30 days
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High-sensitivity cardiac troponin levels
Time Frame: 3 days
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High-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) elevation due to myocardial injury (defined as any hs-cTn concentration greater than the 99th-percentile upper reference limit.) 3 categories:
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3 days
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Collaborators and Investigators
Investigators
- Study Director: Luciana Cadore Stefani, PhD, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre
Publications and helpful links
General Publications
- Pearse RM, Moreno RP, Bauer P, Pelosi P, Metnitz P, Spies C, Vallet B, Vincent JL, Hoeft A, Rhodes A; European Surgical Outcomes Study (EuSOS) group for the Trials groups of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the European Society of Anaesthesiology. Mortality after surgery in Europe: a 7 day cohort study. Lancet. 2012 Sep 22;380(9847):1059-65. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61148-9.
- Bennett-Guerrero E, Welsby I, Dunn TJ, Young LR, Wahl TA, Diers TL, Phillips-Bute BG, Newman MF, Mythen MG. The use of a postoperative morbidity survey to evaluate patients with prolonged hospitalization after routine, moderate-risk, elective surgery. Anesth Analg. 1999 Aug;89(2):514-9. doi: 10.1097/00000539-199908000-00050.
- Writing Committee for the VISION Study Investigators; Devereaux PJ, Biccard BM, Sigamani A, Xavier D, Chan MTV, Srinathan SK, Walsh M, Abraham V, Pearse R, Wang CY, Sessler DI, Kurz A, Szczeklik W, Berwanger O, Villar JC, Malaga G, Garg AX, Chow CK, Ackland G, Patel A, Borges FK, Belley-Cote EP, Duceppe E, Spence J, Tandon V, Williams C, Sapsford RJ, Polanczyk CA, Tiboni M, Alonso-Coello P, Faruqui A, Heels-Ansdell D, Lamy A, Whitlock R, LeManach Y, Roshanov PS, McGillion M, Kavsak P, McQueen MJ, Thabane L, Rodseth RN, Buse GAL, Bhandari M, Garutti I, Jacka MJ, Schunemann HJ, Cortes OL, Coriat P, Dvirnik N, Botto F, Pettit S, Jaffe AS, Guyatt GH. Association of Postoperative High-Sensitivity Troponin Levels With Myocardial Injury and 30-Day Mortality Among Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery. JAMA. 2017 Apr 25;317(16):1642-1651. doi: 10.1001/jama.2017.4360.
- Stefani LC, Gutierrez CS, Castro SMJ, Zimmer RL, Diehl FP, Meyer LE, Caumo W. Derivation and validation of a preoperative risk model for postoperative mortality (SAMPE model): An approach to care stratification. PLoS One. 2017 Oct 30;12(10):e0187122. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187122. eCollection 2017.
- Ferraris VA, Bolanos M, Martin JT, Mahan A, Saha SP. Identification of patients with postoperative complications who are at risk for failure to rescue. JAMA Surg. 2014 Nov;149(11):1103-8. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2014.1338.
- Stahlschmidt A, Passos SC, Cardoso GR, Schuh GJ, Gutierrez CS, Castro SMJ, Caumo W, Pearse RM; Ex-Care collaborative; Stefani LC. Enhanced peri-operative care to improve outcomes for high-risk surgical patients in Brazil: a single-centre before-and-after cohort study. Anaesthesia. 2022 Apr;77(4):416-427. doi: 10.1111/anae.15671. Epub 2022 Feb 15.
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Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Anticipated)
Study Completion (Anticipated)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
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Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
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More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 2019-0066
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
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