How Early Mobilization Impacts on Diaphragm Thickness in Critically Ill Children
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: early mobilization, routine care.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Mechanical Ventilation Complication, Ventilator-induced Diaphragm Dysfunction. Basic parameters: 6 months — 12 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- China
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Official title
A Randomized Control Trial Comparing the Effects of Early Mobilization and Routine Care on Diaphragmatic Thickness
Overview
The objective is to compare the impact of early mobilization and routine care on diaphragm thickness in critically ill children
Detailed description
Mechanical ventilation is a life-supporting therapy that intrinsically induces diaphragm rest. Consequently, mechanical ventilation induces time-dependent diaphragm weakness in animals and in critically ill patients, and is referred to as ventilator-induced diaphragm dysfunction (VIDD).
In most cases with VIDD, the decrease in diaphragm thickness can be detected by bedside Ultrasonography. The onset of diaphragm atrophy in the intensive care unit could be very rapid (fewer than 5 days). Vivier E. defined muscle atrophy as greater than or equal to a 10% decrease in muscle thickness on day 5 compared to day 1. It's found that diaphragm atrophy occured in 17/35 (48%). However, There is always some cases presented an increase in diaphragm thickness. Goligher EC. reported that approximately 20% of mechanically ventilated patients exhibit an increase in diaphragm thickness. In our previous study, there were about 46.7%(14/30) of ventilated children had increased diaphragmatic thickness. It's supposed that the thickening might associated with the diaphragm injury during mechanical ventilation.
Early mobilization may enhance the weaning of ventilated children, so the investigators hypothesize that the percentile of cases with increase diaphragmatic thickness will decline by early mobilization. To investigate this hypothesis, investigators are conducting a randomized trial examining the effects of early mobilization versus routine care on changing tendency of diaphragm thickness.
Enrolled children requiring mechanical ventilation will be randomized to either early mobilization group or routine care group. Diaphragm thickness will be measured by ultrasound on day1, day3, day5 and day7 after intubation and subsequently diaphragm thickness changing tendency will be calculated in each arm. The operator acquiring ultrasound images will be blinded to the care mode that the subject was randomized to. Subjects in the study will follow standard ICU sedation awakening trials and spontaneous breathing trials. The medical team in charge of the subject will determine when the subject is safe to receive early mobilization according to the standard established along with the rehabilitation team.
Interventions
- Other early mobilization
Early mobilization is a kind of rehabilitation strategy. When the safe standards are met, early mobilization will be performed on subjects randomized in EM group for 30 minutes each time, twice a day, from Monday to Friday. The detailed mobilization activities include bed repositioning，passive or active range of motion and stretching exercises, passive or active respiratory muscle strengthening, sitting in bed, transfer from lying to sitting at edge of bed. Progressive mobilization goals will be - Other routine care
In this arm, no additional early rehabilitation interventions will be performed except for the routine clinical care, including the ventilation management, spontaneous breathing trials, choice of sedation and analgesia and routine nursing care including repositioning every 2 hours and bed head elevation.
Primary outcome measures
- the percentile of cases with increased diaphragm thickness [Time frame: from intubation up to 7 days]
Secondary outcome measures (4)
- the diaphragm thickness [Time frame: from intubation up to 7 days]
- diaphragmatic thickening fraction (DTF) [Time frame: from intubation up to 7 days]
- mechanical ventilation time [Time frame: from intubation to the day when children are successfully weaned (about 10 days )]
- PICU length of stay [Time frame: days from admission to discharge from PICU (about 20 days)]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- subjects > 6 months and < 12 years of age；
- subjects been intubated and mechanically ventilated for < 24 hours at the time of screening;
- the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) on admission of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is greater than 3
Exclusion criteria
- cardiopulmonary arrest;
- history of diaphragmatic paralysis or neuromuscular disease;
- neuromuscular blockade;
- expectation to be liberated from ventilator in < 24 hours
- history of mechanical ventilation in the last 6 months
- presence of tracheostomy
- high cervical spine injury
- status convulsion
- thoracic trauma when ultrasonic examination cannot be performed
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
China · 1 center
- Children's Hospital, Fudan University — Shanghai
Publications
- Hudson MB, Smuder AJ, Nelson WB, Bruells CS, Levine S, Powers SK. Both high level pressure support ventilation and controlled mechanical ventilation induce diaphragm dysfunction and atrophy. Crit Care Med. 2012 Apr;40(4):1254-60. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31823c8cc9. PMID 22425820
- Grosu HB, Lee YI, Lee J, Eden E, Eikermann M, Rose KM. Diaphragm muscle thinning in patients who are mechanically ventilated. Chest. 2012 Dec;142(6):1455-1460. doi: 10.1378/chest.11-1638. PMID 23364680
- Dres M, Demoule A. Beyond Ventilator-induced Diaphragm Dysfunction: New Evidence for Critical Illness-associated Diaphragm Weakness. Anesthesiology. 2019 Sep;131(3):462-463. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000002825. No abstract available. PMID 31206375
- Supinski GS, Callahan LA. Diaphragm weakness in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients. Crit Care. 2013 Jun 20;17(3):R120. doi: 10.1186/cc12792. PMID 23786764
- Johnson RW, Ng KWP, Dietz AR, Hartman ME, Baty JD, Hasan N, Zaidman CM, Shoykhet M. Muscle atrophy in mechanically-ventilated critically ill children. PLoS One. 2018 Dec 19;13(12):e0207720. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207720. eCollection 2018. PMID 30566470
- Dres M, Goligher EC, Heunks LMA, Brochard LJ. Critical illness-associated diaphragm weakness. Intensive Care Med. 2017 Oct;43(10):1441-1452. doi: 10.1007/s00134-017-4928-4. Epub 2017 Sep 15. PMID 28917004
- Boussuges A, Gole Y, Blanc P. Diaphragmatic motion studied by m-mode ultrasonography: methods, reproducibility, and normal values. Chest. 2009 Feb;135(2):391-400. doi: 10.1378/chest.08-1541. Epub 2008 Nov 18. PMID 19017880
- El-Halaby H, Abdel-Hady H, Alsawah G, Abdelrahman A, El-Tahan H. Sonographic Evaluation of Diaphragmatic Excursion and Thickness in Healthy Infants and Children. J Ultrasound Med. 2016 Jan;35(1):167-75. doi: 10.7863/ultra.15.01082. Epub 2015 Dec 17. PMID 26679203
Identifiers
NCT: NCT04534296 · WangSJ001