Early Intensive Physical Therapy in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

Treatments: Other: Physical Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02675985

15-0829

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will investigate the safety and feasibility of early intensive physical therapy for patients diagnosed with subarachnoid hemorrhage. Intervention will begin in the neurological Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and continue for 30 days or hospital discharge.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients diagnosed by CT scan or MRI with subarachnoid hemorrhage and admitted to the neurological ICU >48 hours.

Exclusion criteria

• Significant language barrier that would limit the ability to participate in the physical therapy program

• Severe baseline physical or cognitive impairment that would impair their ability to participate in the protocol

• Patients whose vital signs are outside the accepted starting and stopping criteria outlined below:

  1. intracranial pressure ≤ 15 mm Hg
  2. Cerebral perfusion pressure >50 or <70 mm Hg
  3. Mean arterial pressure ≥ 80 and ≤ 110
  4. Heart rate ≥40 and <140 bpm
  5. Pulse oximetry >88%

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 1 patient group

Intervention arm

Experimental group

Description:

Early intensive physical therapy will be the intervention arm. There is not a control group.

Treatment:

Other: Physical Therapy