Muscle Mass and Body Composition

Medical Centre Leeuwarden

Status: Completed

Conditions: Muscle Loss

Treatments: Other: muscle mass measurement

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03184623

nWMO 205

Details and patient eligibility

About

ICUacquired weakness is a common complication of critical illness, particularly in patients receiving mechanical ventilation and/or suffering from conditions leading to the systemic inflammatory response syndrome.

Full description

The weakness and disability that result from these neuromuscular disorders can dominate the lont-term course and impede recovery.

In this observational study we try to measure muscle mass and body composition by echocardiography and BIVA at admission and on day 2, 5

Enrollment: 23 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all acute admitted patients in ICU

Exclusion criteria

• age < 18
• stay on ICU < 48 hours
• use of corticosteroids
• neurological diseases
• acute kidney injure / nead of CVVH