About this trial
The Advancing Cognition and Cognitive reserve before ELective surgery to Enhance cognitive Recovery And TrajEctories (ACCELERATE) Pilot Trial estimates whether our novel, coach-supported cognitive prehabilitation strategy will achieve adequate intervention adherence in the context of a feasible multicenter trial protocol.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Age >/= 60 years
Planned, inpatient, surgical procedures: abdominal, orthopedic, spine, thoracic, pelvic, ENT, and vascular
Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) score >/= 4
Expected time to surgery >/= 4 weeks
Disqualifiers
Cardiac and intracranial neurosurgery procedures
Visual impairment
Lack of English fluency
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Cognitive Prehabilitation
Treatment groups
Sponsors and collaborators
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Lead sponsor
Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society
Collaborator
University of Ottawa Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Collaborator