Implementation of Physiotherapy on COVID-19 Patients in ICU

• Conditions: COVID-19; Sars-CoV2
• Interventions: Other: Phsyiotherapy

• Registration Number: NCT04347070
• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Montpellier

Brief Summary

Despite new charachersitics of COVID-19 patients, critical care implementation seems to be similar to those with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) in intensive care units (ICU).

Regarding the initial gravity of these patients, sedation and neuromuscular blockers are usually administrated, increasing the risk to develope an ICU-acquired weakness which is directly correlated to morbi-mortality and a burden during recovery.

Respiratory symptoms are mostly related to dyspnoea and non-productive cough, with only 33% of COVID-19 patient having a bronchial hypersecretion ; consequently, chest physiotherapy is only implemented in after case-by-case evaluation.

This unprecedented situation requires to identify how physiotherapy is being implemented in COVID-19 patients in ICU.

This retrospective, multicentric study aims to identify the charactheristics of physiotherapy (type and time spent) implemented in Argentina, Belgium, Chili, France, Italy and Spain

Detailed Description

* Demographics data : hospitalisation date, ICU date, COVID+ date, extubation date, discharge date, mortality

* ICU data : ventilatory mode, type of physiotherapy implemented (early rehabilitation, chest physiotherapy, time spent (minutes), number of interventions per day.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2017-04-01
• Study First Submitted: 2020-04-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-04-10
• Study First Posted: 2020-04-15
• Primary Completion: 2020-09-01
• Status Verified: 2020-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-12-28
• Last Update Posted: 2020-12-29
• Study Completion: 2022-12-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 150

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Patients accepted in ICU diagnosed with COVID-19	Phsyiotherapy	Patients accepted in ICU diagnosed with COVID-19

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Time of physiotherapy	7 day	Time of physiotherapy (minutes)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Type of physiotherapy implemented	7 day	Type of physiotherapy , early rehabilitation or chest phsyitoherapy

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Uhmontpellier; 🇫🇷 Montpellier, France