NCT02940067

Enhancing Fitness Before Pancreatic Surgery

A Multimodal Approach to Improve Fitness and Surgical Outcomes for Patients Undergoing Pancreatic Resection

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a pilot study to investigate the effect of prehabilitation on patients undergoing elective surgery for pancreatic disease.

Detailed description

Pancreatic surgery is high risk. The injury associated with surgery causes a stress response, comprising a variety of hormonal and metabolic effects. Patients undergoing pancreatic surgery experience one of the largest stress responses. Prehabilitation is the process of enhancing an individual's fitness, thereby improving tolerance to an upcoming physiological stress such as surgery. Studies involving prehabilitation have been shown to improve recovery after surgery and reduce complication rates. There are currently no published reports of prehabilitation involving patients undergoing pancreatic surgery. This research study will explore the effect of prehabilitation in these patients. Patients with pancreatic disease are some of the least fit surgical candidates due to the disease process. Exercise training can improve physical fitness before elective abdominal surgery and nutritional supplementation can also influence clinical course via different mechanisms. Patients with pancreatic disease are often malnourished for several reasons. We propose a multimodal approach to prehabilitation involving dietary and exercise interventions during a four-week period preceding elective surgery. Core data will be collected from cardiopulmonary exercise tests and blood tests (to assess insulin sensitivity), before and after prehabilitation. Secondary outcomes such as length of stay and complications will also be measured postoperatively.

Conditions

• Pancreatic Cancer
• Pancreatitis, Chronic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	MedEx	A combination of dietary and exercise interventions over four weeks before scheduled pancreatic surgery

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-03-28
• Primary completion: 2018-06-21
• Completion: 2018-08-20
• First posted: 2016-10-20
• Last updated: 2018-08-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom