NCT03035903

Energy Cost for Holding a MedGem® Indirect Calorimeter

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Pennington Biomedical Research Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical protocol is to perform a randomized crossover study to determine the energy cost of holding the MedGem® device above a person's normal resting metabolic rate (RMR) compared to not holding the MedGem® device.

Detailed description

Forty (40) subjects will be randomized to two (2) RMR measurements separated by a 40-minute rest (washout) period. The two RMR evaluation periods are as follows: 1. RMR with MedGem® Indirect Calorimeter 2. RMR without MedGem® Indirect Calorimeter Study recruitment will be performed at PBRC. Screening, consenting, and all study procedures will be performed within a single study visit at PBRC within the Inpatient Unit. All subjects will be introduced to the ventilated hood to determine presence of claustrophobia prior to enrollment (i.e., signing of the consent form).

Conditions

• Resting Metabolic Rate

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Not holding, then holding the MedGem®	Subjects will have a RMR measurement taken first while not holding the MedGem®, and then while holding the MedGem®
DEVICE	Holding, then not holding the MedGem®	Subjects will have a RMR measurement taken first while holding the MedGem®, and then while not holding the MedGem®

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-02-13
• Primary completion: 2017-12-31
• Completion: 2017-12-31
• First posted: 2017-01-30
• Last updated: 2018-06-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States