🌐 EnglishEN

AI Cure is a research tool showing open data. Not medical advice. Discuss with your doctor. Terms

← Trials
🧪

RCT on T-REX Twente Regimen Effects on Quality of Life and Mobilisation for Cardiac Surgery Patients After Sternotomy

RecruitingNAAges 18 Years - anyAllMedisch Spectrum Twente
NCT06115759 on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
💬

In plain words

What the trial is, and whether it could suit you

The goal of this study is whether the T-REX Twente precautions have a positive impact on the quality of life (MAcNew QLMI), level of physical activity, and reduction of fear of movement in heart patients after a total median sternotomy compared to the (current) standard precautions? Do these precautions also have no adverse effects on pain, wound healing, and/or postoperative complications? Participants will be instructed by the physiotherapist to both groups immediately postoperatively and are constantly repeated by the involved disciplines during the hospital stay. The control group is not allowed to lift, push, or pull for the first 6 weeks. There is little to no evidence for the current strict precautions currently implemented in the department. The intervention group receives the new T-REX Twente precautions, allowing for more independent activities through the use of the tube mo

Sign in to get the eligibility rules as simple questions to take to your doctor.

Sign in
📋 Eligibility rules (as published)
Inclusion Criteria: * Adult patients who are preoperatively included if they are undergoing a total median sternotomy at Thorax Centrum Twente (TCT) * Patients with their treating cardiologist also working for TCT. Exclusion Criteria: * \>72 hours of admission to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) * Postoperative delirium (diagnosed with Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) version V * Patients with dementia (or other significant cognitive disorders) * Dutch language barriers * Patients with a cardiologist from a location other than TCT
💊

What it tests

  • T-REX Twente precautions
  • Usual (restrictive) sternal precautions
📍

Where

1 site
Thoraxcentrum Twente
Enschede, Netherlands
🤝 Taking part is your choice, and you can leave at any time. Only the trial team can confirm you are eligible — always decide together with your own doctor.
🛡️

AI Cure shows public evidence (Open Targets, ClinicalTrials.gov, PubMed, openFDA, DepMap, AlphaFold) with its source, and AI summaries that cite it — not medical advice and not a cure. Treatment decisions belong with your doctor. Research ideas are shared only with approved researchers and labs, who can test them. In an emergency call your local emergency number (112 in India and Europe, 911 in the US). AI Cure Terms of Use · Privacy