NCT01893008

Preoperative Inspiratory Muscle Training in Esophageal Resection

Preoperative Inspiratory Muscle Training to Prevent Postoperative Pneumonia in Patients Undergoing Esophageal Resection

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 245 (actual)
• Sponsor: UMC Utrecht · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The PREPARE study is the first multicenter randomized controlled trial to evaluate the hypothesis that preoperative inspiratory muscle training leads to decreased pulmonary complications in patients undergoing esophageal resection.

Detailed description

Rationale: Esophageal resection is associated with high incidences of postoperative pulmonary pneumonia. Numbers of 30% are reported in literature. Postoperative complications can result in prolonged hospital stay and increased health care costs. In cardiac surgery patients a reduction of postoperative pneumonia of 50% is reported as a result of a preoperative inspiratory muscle training program. While in some surgical centers IMT is already used in the preoperative phase in patients undergoing esophageal resection, the effect of this promising intervention has not yet been investigated in a randomised and controlled study design in large surgical populations other than cardiac surgery. Primary objective: Investigate the effect of a preoperative inspiratory muscle training program on the incidence of postoperative pneumonia in patients undergoing esophageal resection. Study design: Prospective multicenter randomised controlled clinical trial. Main study parameters/endpoints: A significant reduction in incidence of postoperative pneumonia.

Conditions

• Esophageal Resection Candidates

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT)	The IMT protocol is tailored individually. Inspiratory load is set at 60% of the measured maximal inspiratory pressure (Pimax). The load is incrementally increased based on the rate of perceived exertion (RPE) scored on a scale from 0 to 10 which is scored by the patient after each training session. When patients score an RPE below 7, patients increase the inspiratory load of the threshold device with 5% to guarantee overload during each training session. Patients have to complete 30 dynamic inspiratory efforts twice daily. Patients will be instructed to train at home 7 days a week until surgery with a minimum of 2 weeks. Training will be started after the chemoradiation period (if applicable).

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-09-01
• Primary completion: 2016-07-01
• Completion: 2016-07-01
• First posted: 2013-07-08
• Last updated: 2017-05-11

Locations

9 sites across 4 countries: Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands