The protocol of Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery (ERACS) in congenital heart disease: a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery (ERACS) programs are comprehensive multidisciplinary interventions to improve patients' recovery. The application of the ERAS principle in pediatric patients has not been identified completely.

Methods

This study is a multicenter, stepwise design, cluster randomized controlled trial. 3030 patients presenting during control and intervention periods are eligible if they are aged from 28 days to 6 years old and awaiting elective correction surgery of congenital heart disease with cardiopulmonary bypass. 5 centers are randomly assigned to staggered start dates for one-way crossover from the control phase to the intervention phase. In the intervention periods, patients will receive a bundle strategy including preoperative, in

SUBMITTER: Dou D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10768436 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature