Does electrically stimulating the leg muscles of people on life saving artificial heart lung machines protect them from damage to their feet?
- Conditions
- Pedal blood flow in patients undergoing Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)Physical Medicine / Rehabilitation - PhysiotherapyCardiovascular - Other cardiovascular diseases
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12616000177459
- Lead Sponsor
- Paul McCormack
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Stopped early
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 4
The study participants will be any patient undergoing ECMO via femoral cannulation in the ICU of The Prince Charles Hospital who would normally receive muscle stimulation as part of their standard physiotherapy care and who do not meet any of the exclusion criteria.
Patients for whom consent was unable to be obtained
Male or female < 18 years old
Inability to independently transfer from bed to chair at baseline before hospital
admission
Known primary systemic neuromuscular disease at ICU admission
Known intracranial process associated with localised weakness e.g. cerebrovascular
accident (CVA) at ICU admission
End-stage malignancy
Diseases with systemic vascular involvement
Bone fractures or skin lesions / open wounds on the area to be treated
Epilepsy
Heavy ischemia of the area to be treated
Patients with permanent pacemaker (PPM) / implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD)
Brain death
Allergic reaction to the electrodes
Significant lower limbs oedema
Obesity (Body Mass Index > 35kg/m2)
Cardiovascular instability as determined clinically by the treating therapist or medical
staff
If the patient is receiving neuromuscular blockers
If the patient displayed clinical signs of treatment intolerance. For sedated and
intubated patients; the level of tolerance will be estimated by assessing signs of distress
(e.g. significant heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) alterations and/or presence of
grimacing) as well as regular skin checks
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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