NCT02270762

Early Passive Verticalization in Critically Ill Patients

Effect of Early Passive Verticalization in Pulmonary Recruitment Evaluated With Electric Impedance Tomography

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

In the critically patient bed rest and inmovilization are some of the responsable of the development of respiratory complications. Early physical exercise is a tool to prevent respiratory complications as lost of respiratory muscle strength, decrease in functional residual capacity and hypoxemia improving oxygenation. In some cases critically ill conditions implies use of pharmacological sedation. That condition limit the active physical exercise. However, some technicals aids as Tilt table allows execution of passive early movilization. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of early passive verticalization assisted by tilt table on alveolar recruitment and pulmonary ventilation in intensive care unit (ICU) patients, evaluated with electrical impedance tomography (EIT) ICU patients included at day of evaluation will be evaluated consecutively with EIT in three stages; 1) in the supine position (at 30° of inclination), 2) verticalized in tilt table (at 60º of inclination) 3) in the supine position (at 30° of inclination)

Conditions

• Critical Illness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Rest in bed
OTHER	Passive verticalization
OTHER	Rest in bed

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-08-01
• Primary completion: 2016-05-01
• Completion: 2016-05-01
• First posted: 2014-10-21
• Last updated: 2015-11-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium