[PDF] Top 20 Electrical muscle stimulation preserves the muscle mass of critically ill patients: a randomized study

... in patients with severe COPD [19,20] and CHF [21,22]. In these patients, EMS resulted in an improvement of muscle perform- ance such as maximum voluntary contraction [20], muscle strength and ... See full document

... to muscle strength and functionality ...ICU patients, due to either their illness or sedation, neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) has been proposed as an alternative method of ... See full document

... that patients with higher disease severity, in their case differentiated by sepsis or no sep- sis, are less likely to respond to NMES ...distal muscle groups respond better to NMES than proximal ... See full document

... the patients’ condition and degree of cooperation ...of critically ill ventilated adults ...the study physiotherapist, the re- habilitation protocol is not and the delivery of physical ... See full document

... and patients after total hip replacement surgery acutely increased popliteal blood flow and volume flow, reflecting increases in shear stress-induced vasodilatation [22, ...enrolling patients with ... See full document

... [2]. Patients with trauma or severe diseases requiring mechanical ventilation are forced to be on long-term bed rest, which causes venous blood stasis of the lower limbs and puts them at high risk for ...that ... See full document

... in patients with severe COPD [12,13,23] and CHF [11]. In these patients who could not perform any form of active exercise due to respiratory or cardiac insuf- ficiency, EMS was well tolerated and resulted ... See full document

... respiratory muscle strength, as measured by maximum expiratory pressure (MEP) and cough peak flow (CPF), has been shown to be an independent predictor of delayed extuba- tion, weaning success, morbidity and ... See full document

... analysis: muscle strength and muscle mass (thickness and ...the study participants, muscle strength was not assessed at admission, and there- fore baseline strength measurements were ... See full document

... a randomized clinical trial in critically ill TBI ...with muscle ultrasound, neuromuscular electrophysiology, and evoked peak force, and the secondary outcomes with plasma cytokines, matrix ... See full document

... in patients during early ICU stay ...entire muscle layer thickness from the fascia lata (or deep fascia) to the femur, because these two landmarks can be precisely ... See full document

... protein mass. Recently, Baracos et al. developed a technique for muscle mass assessment by analyzing computed tomography (CT) scans in cancer patients ...obese patients, defined by a ... See full document

... the muscle torque of the ES + ECC was shown ap- proximately 69% MVC force although that of ES alone was shown 30% MVC force in the experiment 1 In the present study, we have developed the ES with eccentric ... See full document

... time patients received mechanical ...time patients received mechanical ventilation compared with continuous seda- ...Girard study were followed by long-term psychological evalua- tions, both showing ... See full document

... DPN patients when compared to their usual ...on patients with he- miplegia and Parkinson’s ...present study is the first to show the effect of RAS on the gait function of DPN ...of patients ... See full document

... qRT-PCR validation for the transcripts of other genes of interest did however reflect the changes seen in microarray analysis. Myog transcript levels were observed to increase markedly following nerve block, with a ... See full document

... included patients who had a CT scan made and the resulting selection bias might limit the generalizability of our findings to the overall ICU ...the study population was higher than the overall ICU ... See full document

... first study of our research group [21], in which we suppose that the combination of central and peripheral stimulation did not achieve positive results because only a single treatment session was ...the ... See full document

... The present study compares the myofilament protein composition of muscle fibres from the transverse muscle mass of the tentacles with that of the transverse muscle mass of the arms of th[r] ... See full document

... in muscle pH which preceded the fall in systolic blood pressure by 5 minutes. Arterial pH presumably did not vary during this interval[r] ... See full document