Smartphone prehab: could remote coaching slash heart surgery risks?
NCT ID NCT07391683
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tests whether a structured telemedicine program before heart surgery can reduce complications in people with heart failure. The program includes education, medication adjustments, remote monitoring, and supervised exercise. Researchers will compare outcomes like death, need for life support, and ICU stay between the telemedicine group and standard care.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- telemedicine-assisted prehabilitation program (education, medication optimization, monitoring, exercise)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could provide a new standard of care to help heart failure patients have safer heart surgery and recover faster.
- What could go wrong
- This is a relatively small, early-stage trial (162 people) and the program is complex, so it may be hard to tell which part helps. Results may not apply to all patients.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 162 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Feb 2026
- Expected to finish
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Jan 2034
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Indication for elective cardiac surgery in the Heart team * NTproBNP ≥ 1500 ng/L * ≥ 18 years willing to participate in trial * Written informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Neuropsychiatric disorders / illnesses (e.g. drug addiction, alcohol abuse) that do not allow adherent participation in the study * No sufficient ability to measure and transfer data or existing support in the social environment * no sufficient ability to communicate (language skills, eyesight, hearing) * Pregnancy * Chronic kidney disease requiring dialysis * Planed procedure: heart transplantation (HTX), implant of left ventricular mechanical assist devices (L-VAD)
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
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How to take part
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The places running it
1 site. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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A doctor treating you
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Medical University of Innsbruck - Department of Cardiology & Department of Cardiac Surgery
RECRUITINGInnsbruck, Tyrol, 6020, Austria