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Effectiveness and safety of early initiation of poststernotomy cardiac rehabilitation exercise training : The SCAR Randomized Clinical Trial
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Ennis, Stuart, Lobley, Grace, Worrall, Sandra, Evans, Becky, Kimani, Peter K., Khan, Amir, Powell, Richard, Banerjee, Prithwish, Barker, Tom and McGregor, Gordon (2022) Effectiveness and safety of early initiation of poststernotomy cardiac rehabilitation exercise training : The SCAR Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Cardiology, 7 (8). pp. 817-824. doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2022.1651 ISSN 2380-6583.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2022.1651
Abstract
Importance Guidelines recommend that cardiac rehabilitation (CR) exercise training should not start until 6 weeks after sternotomy, although this is not evidence based. Limited data suggest that starting earlier is not detrimental, but clinical trials are needed.
Objective To compare the effectiveness and safety of CR exercise training started either 2 weeks (early CR) or 6 weeks (usual-care CR) after sternotomy.
Design, Setting, and Participants This was an assessor-blind, noninferiority, parallel-group, randomized clinical trial that conducted participant recruitment from June 12, 2017, to March 17, 2020. Participants were consecutive cardiac surgery sternotomy patients recruited from 2 outpatient National Health Service rehabilitation centers: University Hospital, Coventry, UK, and Hospital of St Cross, Rugby, UK.
Interventions Participants were randomly assigned to 8 weeks of twice-weekly supervised CR exercise training starting either 2 weeks (early CR) or 6 weeks (usual-care CR) after sternotomy. Exercise training adhered to existing guidelines, including functional strength and cardiovascular components.
Main Outcomes and Measures Outcomes were assessed at baseline (inpatient after surgery), after CR (10 or 14 weeks after sternotomy), and 12 months after randomization. The primary outcome was the change in 6-minute walk test distance from baseline to after CR. Secondary outcomes included safety, functional fitness, and quality of life.
Results A total of 158 participants (mean [SD] age, 63 [11.5] years, 133 male patients [84.2%]) were randomly assigned to study groups; 118 patients (usual-care CR, 61 [51.7%]; early CR, 57 [48.3%]) were included in the primary analysis. Early CR was not inferior to usual-care CR (noninferiority margin, 35 m); the mean change in 6-minute walk distance from baseline to after CR was 28 m greater in the early CR group (95% CI, −11 to 66; P = .16). Mean differences for secondary outcomes were not statistically significant, indicating noninferiority of early CR. There were 46 vs 58 adverse events and 14 vs 18 serious adverse events in usual-care CR and early CR, respectively. There was no difference between the groups in the likelihood of participants having an adverse or serious adverse event.
Conclusions and Relevance Starting exercise training from 2 weeks after sternotomy was as effective as starting 6 weeks after sternotomy for improving 6-minute walk distance. With appropriate precautions, clinicians and CR professionals can consider starting exercise training as early as 2 weeks after sternotomy.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine | |||||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School | |||||||||||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | |||||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Heart -- Diseases -- Patients -- Rehabilitation, Heart -- Diseases -- Exercise therapy | |||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | JAMA Cardiology | |||||||||||||||
Publisher: | American Medical Association (AMA) | |||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 2380-6583 | |||||||||||||||
Official Date: | 22 June 2022 | |||||||||||||||
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Volume: | 7 | |||||||||||||||
Number: | 8 | |||||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 817-824 | |||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1001/jamacardio.2022.1651 | |||||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 6 July 2022 | |||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 June 2023 | |||||||||||||||
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