The Effect of Care Protocol on the Outcomes of Patients With Lung Surgery

Mersin University80 enrolled

Overview

This randomized controlled trial evaluates the effect of the care protocol, which consists of independent nursing interventions, which play an important role in accelerating the recovery process of the patient, such as the patient's position, mobilization, use of spirometry, and providing shoulder exercises after thoracotomy. The hypothesis of this research is; the care protocol applied to the patients after thoracotomy has an effect on the patients' pulmonary function tests (FVC, FEV1, FEV1/FVC) and on the mobilization of the patients, the development of complications, the time of chest tube removal and the discharge

Methods: In the study, 80 patients were randomly assigned to the study and control groups. Nursing interventions will be applied to the patients included in the study group (n=40), starting from the 0th day (the first day spent in the intensive care unit) after the thoracotomy in line with the prepared care protocol application steps until discharge. maintenance protocol; It will consist of position of the patient, mobilization, use of spirometer and shoulder exercises. The primary outcome of the research is the effect of the maintenance protocol used in the improvement of respiratory function on respiratory function tests. The secondary outcome of the research is to determine the effect of the care protocol on mobilization, complication development status, chest tube removal and discharge time in patients. The results are obtained by recording PFT values on the 1st, 5th and discharge days before and after thoracotomy. Postoperative (0.,1.,2.,3.,4.,5.) days and discharge day; mobilization, complication development status, chest tube removal time and discharge date will be recorded on the Patient Results Form.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Patient Outcomes

Interventions

Care protocolOTHER

Before starting the application, the investigator (DS) will fill out the Introductory Characteristics Form of all patients, the Pre-thoracotomy Pulmonary Function Test (PFT) section of the Patient Results Form. The PFT section will be re-evaluated on the 1st, 5th day and on the day of discharge after thoracotomy. Nursing interventions will be applied to the study group (n=40), starting from the 0th day (the first day spent in the intensive care unit) after the thoracotomy in line with the prepared care protocol application steps until discharge. Care protocol consists of patient's position, mobilization, use of spirometer and shoulder exercises.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 80 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Accepting to participate in the research, * 18 years and older, * Conscious, oriented and cooperative, * Able to speak and understand Turkish, * Does not have any psychiatric disease, * Elective thoracotomy performed, * Chest tube inserted, * Patients who were followed up in the intensive care unit on the first day after surgery and admitted to the clinic the next day * Patients without a history of metastatic disease Exclusion Criteria: * Those who do not accepted to participate in the research, * Under 18 years of age, * Unconscious, without orientation and cooperation, * Who cannot speak or understand Turkish, * Having a psychiatric problem, * Non thoracotomy * Non chest tube, * Metastatic disease, * Emergency thoracotomy applied, * Patients staying in the intensive care unit for more than one day.

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Pulmonary function test values evaluated using the care protocol

Pulmonary function tests. Pulmonary function tests will be measured with a portable pulmonary function tester. In the evaluation, FVC (%), FEV1 (%) and FEV1/FVC (%) parameters will be used

Time frame: Change from before implementation preoperative and postoperative (1.,5.) days and an average of 2 weeks

Secondary Outcomes

Mobilization evaluated using the care protocol

In the study, the patient's in-bed and out-of-bed mobilization will be provided by considering the mobilization application steps, and the patient will be asked to stay out of bed for two hours on the 0 th day after surgery. In the clinic, the patient will be mobilized in line with the mobilization application steps. The patient will be asked to stay out of bed for six hours from the first postoperative day until discharge. The steps taken will be recorded with the pedometer

Time frame: Change from before implementation and postoperative (0.,1.,2.,3.,4.,5.) days and an average of 2 weeks

Prevention of complications evaluated using the care protocol

After the thoracotomy, the conditions that the doctor considers as complications (atelectasis, pneumonia, air leak, bronchospasm, subcutaneous emphysema, atrial fibrillation) will be recorded and daily evaluation will be made.

Time frame: Change from before implementation and postoperative (0.,1.,2.,3.,4.,5.) days and an average of 2 weeks

Chest tube removal evaluated using the care protocol

The time of chest tube removal and the day will be recorded in the Patient Results Form

Time frame: Change from before implementation and postoperative (0.,1.,2.,3.,4.,5.) days and an average of 2 weeks

Discharge time evaluated using the care protocol

The time of discharge will be recorded in the Patient Results Form

Central Contacts

DİLARA SOYDAN, Master

CONTACT

03243610001 dilarasoydan@hotmail.com

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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