NCT01305421

Grip Test in Ventilated ICU Patients

The Role of the Grip Test in the Evaluation of Extubation Success in ICU Patients.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Brugmann · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Mechanically Ventilated ICU Patients

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	grip test	Muscle strength measurement by hand-held dynamometer

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-01-01
• Primary completion: 2011-03-01
• Completion: 2011-04-01
• First posted: 2011-02-28
• Last updated: 2011-02-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium