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Comparison of Body Weights Via Visual Estimation, Anthropometric Calculation, and Actual Measured in Critically Ill Patients

NCT06269861 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2025-03-13

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Summary

Rapid and accurate determination of body weight in adult intensive care patients is very important for both calculating target tidal volume during invasive mechanical ventilation support and dose dependent drug administration. In this patient group, measuring actual body weight with a calibrated scale by standing the patient up is often impossible due to acute illness. Instead, estimated body weight determined by health care personnel or estimated body weights calculated according to anthropometric measurements are used. These calculations have some limitations in showing actual body weight, and there is some controversial information in current literature regarding their validity in critically ill patients. There is newly developed patient transfer scale called Marsden M-999® manufactured by Marsden Weighing Machine Group Ltd, which has the advantage of being used in patients who are unable to stand up, in rapidly and accurately measuring the current body weight in critically ill patients. This study aimed to evaluate the validity of these methods by comparing the body weights calculated by visual estimation and various anthropometric methods in critically ill Turkish patients with the actual weight measured by the mentioned scale.

Conditions

  • Critically Ill
  • Body Weight

Interventions

DEVICE

patient transfer scale

patient transfer scale is a device to measure actual weight for critically ill patient who are unable to stand

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Gazi University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nazlıhan Boyacı Dündar, asist. prof. · Gazi University, Faculty of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-11-01
Primary Completion
2024-12-31
Completion
2024-12-31

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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