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The Sternal Management Accelerated Recovery Trial (SMART) - standard restrictive versus an intervention of modified sternal precautions following cardiac surgery via median sternotomy: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Md Ali Katijjahbe, Linda Denehy, Catherine L Granger, Alistair Royse, Colin Royse, Rebecca Bates, Sarah Logie, Sandy Clarke, Doa El-Ansary

Trials | BMC | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.1186/s13063-017-1974-8

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Keywords

Pain Measurement
Pain, Postoperative
Prospective Studies
Functional Recovery
Biomechanical Phenomena
Coronary Revascularization
Median Sternotomy
Sternal Precautions
Randomised Controlled Trial
Tampa Scale
Intention To Treat Analysis
Research & Experimental Medicine
Cardiac Surgery
Upper Extremity
Subsequent Disability
Physical Performance-Measures
Recovery of Function
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Lower-Extremity Function
Clinical Protocols
Reliability
Double-Blind Method
Science & Technology
Physiotherapy
Surveys and Questionnaires
Sternotomy
Humans
Time Factors
Pilot
Medicine, Research & Experimental
Victoria
Research Design
Cardiac Surgical Procedures
Psychometric Properties
Length of Stay
Quality of Life
Pain
Treatment Outcome