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Early Exercise Training in Critically Ill Patients

NCT00695383 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 90

Last updated 2008-06-11

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Summary

This randomized controlled trial was designed to investigate whether a daily training session using a bedside cycle ergometer, started early in stable critically ill patients with an expected prolonged ICU stay, could induce a beneficial effect on exercise performance, quadriceps force and functional autonomy at ICU and hospital discharge compared to a standard physiotherapy program.

Conditions

  • Critical Illness
  • Intensive Care
  • Muscle Weakness
  • Deconditioning

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Bedside cycle exercise therapy

A 20-minute cycling exercise session is performed 5 days a week using a bedside cycle ergometer. Patients can cycle passively and actively against increasing resistance. Besides this, patients receive the standard physiotherapy program as in arm 2

BEHAVIORAL

Standard physiotherapy program

The standard physiotherapy program consists of daily chest physiotherapy and a mobilization session on 5 days per week.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fund for Scientific Research, Flanders, Belgium

    collaborator OTHER

  • KU Leuven

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rik Gosselink, PT, phD · Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, University Hospitals KULeuven

  • Chris Burtin, PT, MSc · Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, University Hospitals KULeuven

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-12-31
Primary Completion
2007-02-28
Completion
2007-02-28

Countries

  • Belgium

Study Locations

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