Grip Test in Ventilated ICU Patients (griptest92)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Brugmann

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Mechanically Ventilated ICU Patients

Treatments: Procedure: grip test

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01305421

griptest92

Details and patient eligibility

About

ICU patients do experience extubation failure. Guidelines rarely include muscle strength criteria. Prior work indicates that grip strength is a reliable surrogate for muscle strength. The purpose of the study is to assess the success rate of mechanical ventilation weaning based on the grip test.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• mechanically ventilated ICU patients

Exclusion criteria

• tracheotomy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)