Exercise Testing in ICU Survivors to Evaluate ICU-acquired Weakness
Status: Recruiting
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Study Type: Observational
SUMMARY
This study aims to investigate how sepsis and shock can impair microcirculation in intensive care unit (ICU) patients, which can lead to long-lasting muscle weakness/dysfunction or ICU-Acquired Weakness (ICU-AW) and exercise limitations.
Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Healthy Volunteers: t
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• Patients who have received mechanical ventilation for at least 7 days in the MICU or SICU and have subsequently been discharged.
• Patients enrolled in existing microvascular monitoring study in the ICU regardless of duration of mechanical ventilation.
Locations
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Canada
Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg
RECRUITING
Winnipeg
Contact Information
Primary
Asher Mendelson, MD PhD
Asher.Mendelson@umanitoba.ca
204-787-1634
Time Frame
Start Date: 2023-12-15
Estimated Completion Date: 2025-07
Participants
Target number of participants: 50
Treatments
Previously mechanically ventilated
Patients who have received prolonged mechanical ventilation (7 days or more) within the medical ICU or surgical ICU at Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg.~OR~Patients previously enrolled in Microvascular Monitoring in Circulatory Shock and Sepsis (MiMICSS) research study (NCT05985525)
Healthy
Healthy volunteers, matched for age and sex, with participants in the previously mechanically ventilated cohort.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: University of Manitoba