Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal
Montreal, Quebec, H2X 0C1, Canada
NCT Number: NCT06768034
Cardiac complications, particularly myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery (MINS), significantly contribute to 30-day mortality, affecting about 1 in 10 patients after noncardiac surgery. Despite its prevalence and serious implications, there is no consensus on managing myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery in clinical practice. Interventions commonly used for cardiovascular prevention in patients who had a heart attack outside of a surgery context could also be beneficial in patient with MINS. This pilot study trial aims to gather feasibility data, such as recruitment rates and intervention adherence that will guide on the design and inform on sample size of a future study with large pragmatic randomized controlled trial on the impact of systematic referral for secondary cardiovascular prevention on outcomes in patients who had a MINS.
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Montreal, Quebec, H2X 0C1, Canada
The SYNERGY study is a pilot randomized controlled trial with 100 patients who had myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery (MINS). Patients are assigned to either a control group receiving usual care or an intervention group that receives referral to a specialist for implementations of interventions on secondary cardiovascular prevention. Secondary cardiovascular prevention will be individualized to the patient's risk factors and may include antiplatelet agents, cholesterol-lowering treatment, blood pressure-lowering medication, as well as counselling on healthy lifestyle choices on diet and exercise, including, if applicable, optimization of diabetes treatment and help in quitting smoking.
At six months, follow-up will assess clinical cardiovascular outcomes, medication adherence, smoking status, adherence to a Mediterranean diet and physical activity.
Key feasibility metrics include recruitment rate, intervention adherence, crossover in the control group, and changes physical activity and dietary pattern. This study aims to address untreated myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery by collecting feasibility data to inform on the design of a future large randomized clinical trials on secondary cardiovascular prevention.
Healthy volunteers accepted: No
Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.
Inclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria
Patients being referred to an internist or cardiologist after myocardial injury after noncardiac surgery
Time frame: 12 months
Average number of patients recruited per month. Feasibility is defined as average recruitment rate ≥3 patients/month/site as "trial feasible", between 1-2 patients/month/site as "potentially feasible with protocol modifications", and <1 patient/month/site as "unlikely feasible".
Time frame: 6 months
Defined as the proportion of patients allocated to the intervention group with referral to internal medicine or cardiology within 6 weeks of MINS. The adherence feasibility outcome is defined as follows: ≥70% as "trial feasible", between 40-69% "potentially feasible with protocol modifications", and <40% "unlikely feasible".
Time frame: 6 months
Defined as the proportion of patients allocated to the control group with referral to internal medicine or cardiology within 6 weeks of MINS. The crossover feasibility outcome is defined as follows: <30% as "trial feasible", between 30-49% "potentially feasible with protocol modifications", and >50% "unlikely feasible".
Time frame: 6 months
Proportion of patients who are prescribed an antiplatelet, statin, and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEI)/angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARB) (all three) at 6 months.
Time frame: 6 months
Proportion of patients who are prescribed an antiplatelet therapy.
Time frame: 6 months
Proportion of patients who are prescribed a statin.
Time frame: 6 months
Proportion of patients who are prescribed an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEI)/angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB).
Time frame: 12 months
Proportion of eligible patients which consented to participate in the trial
Time frame: 6 months
Proportion of patients enrolled in the trial that completed the 6-month follow-up
Time frame: 6 months
Difference in physical activity score (i.e., the short form of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ-SF) score in metabolic equivalents (METs) minute per week) between baseline and 6 months, expressed as a continuous outcome, with higher values meaning a larger increase in physical activity level.
Time frame: 6 months
Difference between the Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener (MEDAS) questionnaire score at baseline and 6 months (score between 0 and 14, with high score reflecting higher adherence).
Time frame: 6 months
Proportion of patients who experience any of the following composite of cardiovascular death, non-fatal cardiac arrest, myocardial infarction, stroke, heart failure, and coronary revascularization.
Time frame: 6 months
Proportion of patients with a cardiovascular death is defined as any death with a cardiovascular cause and includes those deaths following a myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac arrest, stroke, cardiac revascularization procedure (i.e., percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery), and heart failure.
Time frame: 6 months
Proportion of patients with a myocardial infarction as defined according to the Fourth Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction.
Time frame: 6 months
Proportion of patients with a nonfatal cardiac arrest defined as successful resuscitation from either documented or presumed ventricular fibrillation, sustained ventricular tachycardia, asystole, or pulseless electrical activity requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation, pharmacological therapy, or cardiac defibrillation.
Time frame: 6 months
Proportion of patients with a cardiac revascularization procedures including percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and coronary arterial bypass grafting (CABG).
Time frame: 6 months
Proportion of patients with a stroke defined as either:
Time frame: 6 months
Proportion of patients with a transient ischemic attack defined as rapidly developed and transient clinical signs of focal or global disturbance of cerebral function, lasting less than 24 hours, with either 1) direct weighted magnetic resonance findings of acute brain ischemic lesions, or 2) high risk neurologic features (i.e., lateralizing weakness and/or speech disruption lasting >5 min).
Time frame: 6 months
Proportion of patients with a diagnosis of heart fialure, as defined by (criteria A and B required):
A. New or worsening symptoms due to heart failure (HF), including at least ONE of the following:
B. Signs of new or worsening HF, consisting of at least TWO physical examination findings OR one physical examination finding and at least ONE laboratory (i.e., natriuretic peptide elevation) or radiological imaging.
Time frame: 6 months
Proportion of patients who died of any cause.
Time frame: 6 months
Proportion of patients with a new significant arrythmia defined as new supraventricular or ventricular arrythmia that results in angina, congestive heart failure, symptomatic hypotension, or that requires oral or intravenous treatment with a rate controlling drug, antiarrhythmic drug, electrical cardioversion, implantation of a pacemaker or implantable cardioverter defibrillator.
Time frame: 6 months
Proportion of patients with a major bleeding defined according to the criteria of International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) as clinically overt bleeding which was fatal or associated with any of the following:
Time frame: 6 months
Proportion of patients with a clinically relevant non-major bleeding defined as any sign or symptom of hemorrhage (e.g., more bleeding than would be expected for a clinical circumstance, including bleeding found by imaging alone) that does not fit the criteria for the ISTH definition of major bleeding but does meet at least one of the following criteria:
Time frame: 6 months
Proportion of patients with a kidney Injury defined by the Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN) definition and classified according to the following stage:
Stage 1: Serum creatinine increase ≥26.5 μmol/l or increase to 1.5-2.0-fold from baseline Stage 2: Serum creatinine increase >2.0-3.0-fold from baseline Stage 3: Serum creatinine increase >3.0-fold from baseline or serum creatinine ≥354 μmol/l with an acute increase of at least 44 μmol/l or need for new renal replacement therapy.
Time frame: 6 months
Proportion of patients with a liver injury defined by elevation of ALT and/or AST ≥3 times the upper limit of normal.
Time frame: 6 months
Proportion of patients with a rhabdomyolysis defined as muscle symptoms with serum creatinine kinase ≥10 times the upper limit of normal.
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Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)
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A Pilot Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating Secondary Cardiovascular Prevention Therapies in Patients Who Had a Myocardial Injury After Noncardiac Surgery to Prevent Major Cardiovascular Events
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