Preoperative Frailty Assessment With Ultrasound in Elderly Patients

Seoul National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Frailty

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Point of care ultrasound

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05438628

2206-089-1332

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this study, the investigators aim to evaluate the prediction accuracy of the thickness measured with point-of-care ultrasound of the rectus abdominis, biceps brachii muscles of frailty.

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients 60 years old or older scheduled for total knee arthroplasty

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to communicate with the patient or the patient's guardian
• Myopathy
• History of injury of rectus abdominis, biceps brachii or quadriceps femoris muscle.
• History of total knee arthroplasty in the recent 3 months prior to surgery

Trial design

150 participants in 1 patient group

Patients scheduled for total knee arthroplasty surgery

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Point of care ultrasound