Developing an intervention to optimise the outcome of cardiac surgery in people with diabetes: the OCTOPuS pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cardiothoracic surgical outcomes are poorer in people with diabetes compared with those without diabetes. There are two important uncertainties in the management of people with diabetes undergoing major surgery: (1) how to improve diabetes management in the weeks leading up to an elective procedure and (2) whether that improved management leads to improved postoperative outcomes. The aim of this study was to develop and pilot a specialist diabetes team-led intervention to improve surgical outcomes in people with diabetes.

Design

Open pilot feasibility study SETTING: Diabetes and cardiothoracic surgery departments, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust PARTICIPANTS: Seventeen people with diabetes undergoing cardiothoracic surgery INTERVENTION: Follow

SUBMITTER: Holt RIG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8368047 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature