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Patient's Database: Prepare for Your Surgery Program

NCT06857981 · Status: RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2025-06-10

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Summary

Frailty is a multidimensional syndrome that predominantly affects older people and people with long-term treatments such as cancer and chronic pain. This results in an increased risk of disability, reduced resistance and greater vulnerability to stressors.

These factors culminate in worse postoperative outcomes, including higher rates of complications and mortality. With the current demographic shift towards an aging population in Latin America and Chile, the prevalence of frailty among surgical patients is increasing.

Despite the clear association between frailty and adverse postoperative effects, in Chile there are few centers that routinely perform objective preoperative frailty assessment before to surgery. This is due to logistical challenges, the need for specialized training, and assessment tools. As a result, frailty remains an underestimated syndrome in the perioperative setting.

Various interventions have been proposed to improve the care of fragile surgical patients. Prehabilitation, a multidisciplinary program designed to prepare patients for surgery and improve their resilience to surgical stress, has emerged as a promising intervention. Recent studies indicate that prehabilitation may lead to shorter hospital length of stay (LOS) and fewer complications.

Recognizing the vital role that frailty plays in surgical outcomes and the paucity of research on prehabilitation, a prehabilitation or timely presurgical conditioning program (Prepare for Your Surgery Program) has been implemented at our center. This proposal seeks to optimize the patient before a surgical intervention in order to reduce frailty and complications, thus improving recovery and medium-term results.

The program consists of interventions 4 to 6 weeks before surgery focused on: nursing assessment, screening and follow-up, geriatric and/or internal medicine assessment and intervention, physiotherapy assessment and intervention, nutrition assessment and intervention, psychological assessment and intervention, and preoperative anesthesiology intervention.

For this purpose, it has been proposed to create a prospective database of patients from the Prepare for Your Surgery Program, who undergo elective surgery at Hospital Clinico Red Salud UC-Christus.

Conditions

  • Frailty in Adult Surgery
  • Frail Elderly Syndrome
  • Database
  • Perioperative Care
  • Prehabilitation

Interventions

OTHER

Clinical data collection

Patient's data will be collected, including: date of birth, age, gender/sex, pathology for admission, comorbidities, treatment received, and proposed interventions based on initial assessment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Victor Contreras, MSN · Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-05-21
Primary Completion
2026-06-30
Completion
2026-06-30

Countries

  • Chile

Study Locations

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