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Day-care Unit for Patients With Refractory Heart Failure

Day-care Unit for Patients With Refractory Heart Failure - a Single-centre Study

Status
Unknown
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
200 (estimated)
Sponsor
Silesian Centre for Heart Diseases · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

The Day-Care Unit for Patients With Refractory Heart Failure (DayCare-HF) is an observational study on selected patients with advanced refractory heart failure. The purpose of the study was to examine the comprehensive management of HF in the day-care unit in terms of the safety and its impact on the rehospitalization and mortality rates in patients with advanced refractory HF.

Detailed description

The Day-Care Unit for Patients With Refractory Heart Failure (DayCare-HF) is a single-center observational study conducted in the 3rd Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Silesian Centre for Heart Disease in Zabrze, Poland. The main objective of the DayCare-HF is to verify the hypothesis that comprehensive and multidisciplinary day-care management of patients with refractory heart failure (HF) is safe and beneficial in terms of hospital readmission due to HF and al cause mortality. The study population is formed by selected patients with heart failure, hospitalized in cardiology wards and intensive cardiac care unit of Silesian Centre for Heart Disease, who fulfilled eligibility criteria. During the scheduled visits comprehensive medical service is provided, including education, diagnostic tools (electrocardiography, transthoracic echocardiography, implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) / cardiac resynchronization therapy device (CRT) interrogation and additional treatment (intravenous loop diuretic, dobutamine, vasodilators administration). The patients are under constant follow-up for major adverse events, heart transplantation, hospital readmissions due to HF and all cause mortality.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
OTHERtreatment in day-care heart failure unit

Timeline

Start date
2016-04-01
Primary completion
2020-12-01
Completion
2022-12-01
First posted
2017-02-17
Last updated
2020-05-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Poland

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03056651. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.