Objectives: Having achieved a consolidated in-hospital experience with enhanced recovery after cardiac surgery, we explored the feasibility of expanding our protocol to pre-admission and post-discharge periods. Methods: A multidisciplinary team including cardiac surgeons, anaesthetists/intensivists, physiatrists, physiotherapists, perfusionists, nurses, psychiatrists, and engineers, elaborated a new therapeutic offer, based on current ERAS evidence and using telerehabilitation, to enhance preoperative communication and education and improve pre- and postoperative health and psychological state. Results: An institutional web-based platform for remote rehabilitation will host digital content that covers three main areas, including information and communication, prehabilitation and rehabilitation with the offer of respiratory and muscular exercises and aerobic activities, and psychological and patient experience evaluations. These interventions will be achieved through purposely developed video tutorials that present the hospital environments, the relevant healthcare personnel, and their role during the in-hospital patient’s journey, and illustrate tailored prehabilitation activities. A series of questionnaires will be administered to evaluate and follow the patient’s psychological state and collect patient-reported experience measures. The platform was activated in September 2024 and this service will initially involve 100 patients undergoing minimally invasive mitral valve surgery. A first review of compliance and engagement will be carried out after four months and a complete review of the results after the first year. Conclusions: ERAS is associated with improved surgical outcomes. A person-centred treatment should also address the health and psychological difficulties that patients face before hospitalisation and after discharge. Telemedicine is a valid tool to expand treatment and monitoring outside the hospital. This experience may give new insights into the feasibility and effectiveness of providing home-based remote interventions aimed at a global improvement in results throughout the overall cardiac surgery journey.
Telemedicine/Telerehabilitation to Expand Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Interventions in Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery / Malvindi, Pietro Giorgio; Ceravolo, Maria Gabriella; Capecci, Marianna; Balestra, Stefania; Cinì, Emanuela; Antoniello, Antonia; Pepa, Lucia; Carbonetti, Antonella; Ricci, Maurizio; Berretta, Paolo; Mazzocca, Francesca; Fioretti, Marco; Volpe, Umberto; Munch, Christopher; Di Eusanio, Marco. - In: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE. - ISSN 2077-0383. - ELETTRONICO. - 14:3(2025). [10.3390/jcm14030750]
Telemedicine/Telerehabilitation to Expand Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Interventions in Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery
Malvindi, Pietro Giorgio
;Ceravolo, Maria Gabriella;Capecci, Marianna;Antoniello, Antonia;Pepa, Lucia;Ricci, Maurizio;Berretta, Paolo;Mazzocca, Francesca;Fioretti, Marco;Volpe, Umberto;Munch, Christopher;Di Eusanio, Marco
2025-01-01
Abstract
Objectives: Having achieved a consolidated in-hospital experience with enhanced recovery after cardiac surgery, we explored the feasibility of expanding our protocol to pre-admission and post-discharge periods. Methods: A multidisciplinary team including cardiac surgeons, anaesthetists/intensivists, physiatrists, physiotherapists, perfusionists, nurses, psychiatrists, and engineers, elaborated a new therapeutic offer, based on current ERAS evidence and using telerehabilitation, to enhance preoperative communication and education and improve pre- and postoperative health and psychological state. Results: An institutional web-based platform for remote rehabilitation will host digital content that covers three main areas, including information and communication, prehabilitation and rehabilitation with the offer of respiratory and muscular exercises and aerobic activities, and psychological and patient experience evaluations. These interventions will be achieved through purposely developed video tutorials that present the hospital environments, the relevant healthcare personnel, and their role during the in-hospital patient’s journey, and illustrate tailored prehabilitation activities. A series of questionnaires will be administered to evaluate and follow the patient’s psychological state and collect patient-reported experience measures. The platform was activated in September 2024 and this service will initially involve 100 patients undergoing minimally invasive mitral valve surgery. A first review of compliance and engagement will be carried out after four months and a complete review of the results after the first year. Conclusions: ERAS is associated with improved surgical outcomes. A person-centred treatment should also address the health and psychological difficulties that patients face before hospitalisation and after discharge. Telemedicine is a valid tool to expand treatment and monitoring outside the hospital. This experience may give new insights into the feasibility and effectiveness of providing home-based remote interventions aimed at a global improvement in results throughout the overall cardiac surgery journey.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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