Relationship Between Muscle Strength and Quality of Life in ICU Survivors

University of Liege

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Muscle Strength; Quality of Life; Grip Strength; Critical Illness; Quadriceps Strength

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: handgrip strength; Diagnostic Test: quadriceps strength

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04503486

MQV-USI

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim is to study the impact of muscle strength measured in ICU and after ICU discharge on health-related quality of life measured after hospital discharge.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• critically ill patients with an ICU stay of at least 7 days
• collaborative

Exclusion criteria

• non collaborative, confusion, coma
• limb paresis or plegia
• patient refusal