About this trial
Last updated 3 years ago
Study ID
Status
Type
Phase
Placebo
Accepting
Not accepting
Trial Timing
Ended 3 years ago
What is this trial about?
What are the participation requirements?
Inclusion Criteria
- Patients submitted to elective cardiac surgery (valvular or coronary bypass surgery by sternotomy)
- Both male and female
- a score of 15 on the Glasgow Coma Scale
- musculoskeletal, and cardiopulmonary conditions suitable for the accomplishment of the proposed activities
- absence of neurological sequelae and/or neurodegenerative diseases
Exclusion Criteria
- Those who had difficulty understanding the activities involved in the study.
- those with any motor or neurological impairment that would prevent them from using a cycle ergometer.
- those who discontinued the protocol on the ward for return to the ICU
- previous cardiac surgeries
- hemodynamic instability that prevented protocol performance
- breathing discomfort
- invasive ventilatory support
- oxygen saturation below 90% (even with complementary oxygen therapy)
- coagulation disorders
- infections in any of the systems
- nonperformance of the whole protocol