Status:

COMPLETED

TryCYCLE: A Pilot Study of Early In-bed Leg Cycle Ergometry in Mechanically Ventilated Patients

Lead Sponsor:

McMaster University

Collaborating Sponsors:

St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton

Conditions:

Intensive Care Unit Acquired Weakness

Critical Care

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Background: Patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) are the sickest in hospital, and need advanced life-support. Survivors of critical illness are very vulnerable to weakness and disability. Up to 1...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Adult patients ≥18 years old
  • Invasively mechanically ventilated ≤4 days
  • Expected additional 2 day ICU stay
  • Ability to ambulate independently pre-hospital (with or without a gait aid)

Exclusion

  • Unable to follow simple commands at baseline
  • Pregnancy
  • Acute conditions impairing ability to walk or cycle (e.g., leg or foot fracture)
  • Acute central condition or peripheral injury resulting in neuromuscular weakness (e.g., stroke, Guillain Barré syndrome)
  • Primary generalized weakness of the central or peripheral nervous system (e.g., multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)
  • Temporary pacemaker wires
  • Expected hospital mortality\> 90%
  • Cycling equipment unable to fit patient's body dimensions (e.g., leg amputation or obesity)
  • Specific surgical exclusion as stipulated by attending
  • \>7 day ICU stay
  • Physician declines
  • Patient did not meet daily screening criteria to provide in-bed leg cycling during the first 4 days of mechanical ventilation

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

September 1 2013

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

January 1 2015

Estimated Enrollment :

33 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01885442

Start Date

September 1 2013

End Date

January 1 2015

Last Update

April 6 2016

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St. Joseph's Healthcare Intensive Care Unit

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8N 4A6