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Mobilization With Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation in Critical Care Patients

NCT02298114 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 24

Last updated 2015-12-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Neuromuscular electrical stimulation in pectoral muscles (fibres of the pectoralis major muscle bilaterally) and rectus abdominis muscles (bilaterally) preserves / decreases the loss of muscle mass.

Conditions

  • Muscular Atrophy

Interventions

DEVICE

NEUROMUSCULAR ELECTRICAL STIMULATION

Neuromuscular electrical stimulation will be applied Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) machine.

OTHER

Conventional physiotherapy

The control group will receive conventional physiotherapy associated the placebo electrical stimulation

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior.

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Alexandre Simões Dias · Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-08-31
Primary Completion
2015-12-31
Completion
2015-12-31

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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