Early Directed Physical Therapy in the Management of Mechanically Ventilated Patients in a Medical Intensive Care Unit

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Mechanically Ventilated Patients

In brief

To study all ICU patients with an independent baseline functional status, who experience a critical illness requiring intubation and mechanical ventilation, evaluating the role of protocol-directed, early physical and occupational therapy on the incidence of critical illness associated functional debilitation. Our goal is to hasten the recovery of independent physical functioning as well as to reduce ICU delirium in the group of patients who begin this intervention from the earliest hours of ventilator dependence.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00322010

Run by

University of Chicago

People needed

104

Starts

2005-06-01

Expected to finish

2007-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-03-18

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients intubated and mechanical ventilated for < 72 hours
• Age > 18 years
• Baseline independent functional status as assessed by a Barthel Index score > 70 collected from a proxy reflecting baseline health 2 weeks prior to critical illness

You may not qualify if…

• Rapidly evolving neurological/neuromuscular disease
• Cardiac arrest
• Irreversible conditions with six month mortality estimated at > 50%
• Elevated intracranial pressure
• Multiple absent limbs (precluding complete musculoskeletal examination)
• Enrollment in another trial

Where it is running

• University of Chicago — Chicago, Illinois, United States

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