Evaluation of Post-operative, Nurse-based Heart Failure Care in Non-cardiac Surgery

NCT03202329 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 525

Last updated 2020-07-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Patients with heart failure NYHA \>= II receiving non-emergent non-cardiac in-patient surgery will be randomized to receive either standard post-operative care (surgeon has to ask actively for specialist cardiological support) or a nurse-based heart failure management (nurses provide week-day support every day after surgery, if needed together with a heart failure doctor)

Conditions

  • Heart Failure,Congestive

Interventions

OTHER

standard care

cardiologists assist in treatment and provide heart failure guidance post-operatively if required by the treating surgeon

OTHER

Nurse-based care

board-certified heart failure nurses provide heart failure guidance post-operatively on every working day

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Birgit Assmus

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-10-01
Primary Completion
2020-12-01
Completion
2021-06-01

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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