Actigraphy to MEasuRe Intensive Care Unit Activity

Completed

Conditions studied: Disability, Physical Activity, Aging, Critical Illness

In brief

This study is to determine whether accelerometry can be used to measure physical activity occurring during routine clinical care in a diverse population of patients with medical or surgical critical illness.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02263716

Run by

Vanderbilt University

People needed

25

Starts

2015-07-01

Expected to finish

2016-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-01-06

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Patients will be included if they are:
• adult patients,
• admitted to the medical or surgical ICU,
• receiving or have received invasive or non-invasive mechanical ventilation for respiratory failure or vasopressors for shock (i.e., cardiogenic, hemorrhagic, septic or undifferentiated shock) within the last 48 hours, and
• who are receiving routine physical and occupational therapy.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients will be excluded if they meet any of the following criteria:
• Those who have severe physical disability that prevented independent living prior to their illness,
• Those unable to speak and communicate in English,
• Expected death within 24 hours of enrollment or lack of commitment to aggressive treatment by the family or medical team (i.e., likely to withdraw life support measures within 24 hours of screening),
• Inability to obtain informed consent from authorized surrogate;

Where it is running

• Vanderbilt University Medical Center — Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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