Prescribed Sternal Precautions vs. Self-Guided Restrictive Care (PEEERC)
Key facts
- Who runs it
- University of Chicago
- Where
- Chicago, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Status
- Terminated
- People taking part
- 10 people enrolled
- Started
- 1 Jun 2021
- Ended
- 30 Oct 2025
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Self Managed Care
- Record updated
- 10 November 2025
- Why it stopped
- Lack of current personnel availability. Plan to re-evaluate the study protocol and potentially reconsider study alterations in the future.
Who can take part
- Age
- 18 years to 70 years
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Undergoing a sternotomy, English speaking, 18-70 years old, able to ambulate independently
Who cannot take part
- Sternotomy due to VAD implantation or cardiac transplantation, discharge over 1.5 weeks after surgery, prior sternotomy
Where in United States
- The University Of ChicagoChicago, United States
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Our study aims to compare postoperative outcomes, postoperative pain and postoperative quality of lives in patients who receive the standard sternal precautions to those in patients who received self-managed sternal precautions following sternotomy for cardiac surgeries. The purpose of the study is to see if self-managed sternal precautions following sternotomy for cardiac surgeries lead to better quality of lives while maintaining same postoperative pain and rate of postoperative adverse events than standard sternal precautions. Postoperative pain and postoperative quality of lives will be assessed by phone call surveys. Postoperative outcomes will be measured by following the patients for up to a year using electronic medical record.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Arm 1Treatment being tested
Arm 1 will receive instruction to use pain and discomfort as the safe limits for their upper limb use during daily activities at post operative discharge.
Treatment: Self Managed Care
- Arm 2Existing treatment, for comparison
Arm 2 will receive the standard sternal precautions at time of post operative discharge.
Treatment: Self Managed Care
Data and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- A Randomized Trial of Standard of Care Sternal Precautions VS Self Managed Care
- Record updated
- 10 November 2025