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Fit 4 surgery, a bespoke app with biofeedback delivers rehabilitation at home before and after elective lung resection.

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Background

Pulmonary rehabilitation programme for lung surgery patients can reduce the risk of post-operative complications but compliance to programmes can be limited by access to health care. We developed a home-based rehabilitation app and tested its feasibility in patients undergoing lung resection surgery.

Methods

A cohort study was conducted over 18?months at a regional thoracic unit. The Fit 4 Surgery app included ten exercises. Patients were instructed to exercise for at least three minutes for each exercise. Data was transmitted back to the researchers remotely. Data was also collected from a contemporaneous group of surgery patients who attended local outpatient-based Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease rehabilitation classes. Quality of Life and outcomes data in the app group were collected. Patients were also interviewed about their experience of the app.

Results

App patients had a shorter wait before surgery compared to patients attending rehabilitation classes (24 vs 45?days) but managed four times as many sessions (2 vs 9), improving incremental shuttle walk test distance by 99?±?83 (p?ConclusionAn app based programme of rehabilitation can be delivered in a timely fashion to lung surgery patients with demonstrable physiological benefits; this will need to be confirmed in further clinical trials.

Clinical trial registration number

ISRCTN00061628. Registered 27 May 2011.

SUBMITTER: Kadiri SB

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6611050 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Fit 4 surgery, a bespoke app with biofeedback delivers rehabilitation at home before and after elective lung resection.

Kadiri Salma Bibi SB Kerr Amy Pamela AP Oswald Nicola Katy NK Budacan Alina-Maria AM Flanagan Sarah S Golby Christopher C Lightfoot Stuart S Naidu Babu B

Journal of cardiothoracic surgery 20190705 1

<h4>Background</h4>Pulmonary rehabilitation programme for lung surgery patients can reduce the risk of post-operative complications but compliance to programmes can be limited by access to health care. We developed a home-based rehabilitation app and tested its feasibility in patients undergoing lung resection surgery.<h4>Methods</h4>A cohort study was conducted over 18 months at a regional thoracic unit. The Fit 4 Surgery app included ten exercises. Patients were instructed to exercise for at l ...[more]

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