Multimodal prehabilitation to reduce the incidence of delirium and other adverse events in elderly patients undergoing elective major abdominal surgery: An uncontrolled before-and-after study.
<h4>Background</h4>Delirium is a common and serious complication in elderly patients undergoing major abdominal surgery, with significant adverse outcomes. Successful strategies or therapies to reduce the incidence of delirium are scarce. The objective of this study was to assess the rol...
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| author | T L Janssen E W Steyerberg J C M Langenberg C C H A van Hoof- de Lepper D Wielders T C J Seerden D C de Lange J H Wijsman G H Ho P D Gobardhan R van Alphen L van der Laan |
| author_facet | T L Janssen E W Steyerberg J C M Langenberg C C H A van Hoof- de Lepper D Wielders T C J Seerden D C de Lange J H Wijsman G H Ho P D Gobardhan R van Alphen L van der Laan |
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| description | <h4>Background</h4>Delirium is a common and serious complication in elderly patients undergoing major abdominal surgery, with significant adverse outcomes. Successful strategies or therapies to reduce the incidence of delirium are scarce. The objective of this study was to assess the role of prehabilitation in reducing the incidence of delirium in elderly patients.<h4>Methods</h4>A single-center uncontrolled before-and-after study was conducted, including patients aged 70 years or older who underwent elective abdominal surgery for colorectal carcinoma or an abdominal aortic aneurysm between January 2013 and October 2015 (control group) and between November 2015 and June 2018 (prehabilitation group). The prehabilitation group received interventions to improve patients' physical health, nutritional status, factors of frailty and preoperative anaemia prior to surgery. The primary outcome was incidence of delirium, diagnosed with the DSM-V criteria or the confusion assessment method. Secondary outcomes were additional complications, length of stay, unplanned ICU admission, length of ICU stay, readmission rate, institutionalization, and in-hospital or 30-day mortality.<h4>Result</h4>A total of 360 control patients and 267 prehabilitation patients were included in the final analysis. The mean number of prehabilitation days was 39 days. The prehabilitation group had a higher burden of comorbidities and was more physically and visually impaired at baseline. At adjusted logistic regression analysis, delirium incidence was reduced significantly from 11.7 to 8.2% (OR 0.56; 95% CI 0.32-0.98; P = 0.043). No statistically significant effects were seen on secondary outcomes.<h4>Conclusion</h4>Current prehabilitation program is feasible and safe, and can reduce delirium incidence in elderly patients undergoing elective major abdominal surgery. This program merits further evaluation.<h4>Trial registration</h4>Dutch Trial Registration, NTR5932. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-da8a5a7ba4be460f9cfd0d94dd96ddfc2022-12-21T22:50:46ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032019-01-01146e021815210.1371/journal.pone.0218152Multimodal prehabilitation to reduce the incidence of delirium and other adverse events in elderly patients undergoing elective major abdominal surgery: An uncontrolled before-and-after study.T L JanssenE W SteyerbergJ C M LangenbergC C H A van Hoof- de LepperD WieldersT C J SeerdenD C de LangeJ H WijsmanG H HoP D GobardhanR van AlphenL van der Laan<h4>Background</h4>Delirium is a common and serious complication in elderly patients undergoing major abdominal surgery, with significant adverse outcomes. Successful strategies or therapies to reduce the incidence of delirium are scarce. The objective of this study was to assess the role of prehabilitation in reducing the incidence of delirium in elderly patients.<h4>Methods</h4>A single-center uncontrolled before-and-after study was conducted, including patients aged 70 years or older who underwent elective abdominal surgery for colorectal carcinoma or an abdominal aortic aneurysm between January 2013 and October 2015 (control group) and between November 2015 and June 2018 (prehabilitation group). The prehabilitation group received interventions to improve patients' physical health, nutritional status, factors of frailty and preoperative anaemia prior to surgery. The primary outcome was incidence of delirium, diagnosed with the DSM-V criteria or the confusion assessment method. Secondary outcomes were additional complications, length of stay, unplanned ICU admission, length of ICU stay, readmission rate, institutionalization, and in-hospital or 30-day mortality.<h4>Result</h4>A total of 360 control patients and 267 prehabilitation patients were included in the final analysis. The mean number of prehabilitation days was 39 days. The prehabilitation group had a higher burden of comorbidities and was more physically and visually impaired at baseline. At adjusted logistic regression analysis, delirium incidence was reduced significantly from 11.7 to 8.2% (OR 0.56; 95% CI 0.32-0.98; P = 0.043). No statistically significant effects were seen on secondary outcomes.<h4>Conclusion</h4>Current prehabilitation program is feasible and safe, and can reduce delirium incidence in elderly patients undergoing elective major abdominal surgery. This program merits further evaluation.<h4>Trial registration</h4>Dutch Trial Registration, NTR5932.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218152 |
| spellingShingle | T L Janssen E W Steyerberg J C M Langenberg C C H A van Hoof- de Lepper D Wielders T C J Seerden D C de Lange J H Wijsman G H Ho P D Gobardhan R van Alphen L van der Laan Multimodal prehabilitation to reduce the incidence of delirium and other adverse events in elderly patients undergoing elective major abdominal surgery: An uncontrolled before-and-after study. PLoS ONE |
| title | Multimodal prehabilitation to reduce the incidence of delirium and other adverse events in elderly patients undergoing elective major abdominal surgery: An uncontrolled before-and-after study. |
| title_full | Multimodal prehabilitation to reduce the incidence of delirium and other adverse events in elderly patients undergoing elective major abdominal surgery: An uncontrolled before-and-after study. |
| title_fullStr | Multimodal prehabilitation to reduce the incidence of delirium and other adverse events in elderly patients undergoing elective major abdominal surgery: An uncontrolled before-and-after study. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Multimodal prehabilitation to reduce the incidence of delirium and other adverse events in elderly patients undergoing elective major abdominal surgery: An uncontrolled before-and-after study. |
| title_short | Multimodal prehabilitation to reduce the incidence of delirium and other adverse events in elderly patients undergoing elective major abdominal surgery: An uncontrolled before-and-after study. |
| title_sort | multimodal prehabilitation to reduce the incidence of delirium and other adverse events in elderly patients undergoing elective major abdominal surgery an uncontrolled before and after study |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218152 |
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