Ultrasound of the Quadriceps Femoris Compared With the Clinical Frailty Scale

ConditionsFrailty Intensive Care Unit Syndrome

Trial statusNot yet recruiting

Trial phaseNot listed

Trial typeObservational

Biological sexAll

Age65+

SponsorUniversity Hospital, Toulouse

About this trial

This is a single-centre prospective diagnostic study. When a patient is admitted to the inclusion centre, the clinician responsible for the patient checks the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The no objection from the patient (or their trusted support person or, failing that, a close if the patient is unable to give consent) is sought.The CFS scale is completed and recorded by the clinician in the observation observation notebook.The clinician performs a quadricipital muscle ultrasound, specifically for research purposes, with no changes to the therapeutic and its results are recorded in the observation notebook.

observation notebook.At 3 months after inclusion, information was collected from the medical records to identify secondary endpoints.

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Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

patient aged 65 or over

admitted to intensive care or the outpatient department for less than 24 hours

with an abdominal CT scan less than 30 days prior to admission OR who are scheduled for an scheduled for a routine abdomino-pelvic CT scan within the first 24 hours of admission

Disqualifiers

Neuromuscular disease

Lower limb amputation

Paraplegia > 24 hours before admission

Clearly infected, burnt or lacerated ultrasound site.

Trial population

Any patient aged 65 or over admitted to intensive care or the emergency department who meets the eligibility criteria

Trial design

Design model

Cohort

Time perspective

Retrospective

Treatments tested in this trial

quadricipital muscle ultrasound
Diagnostic test
ultrasound depth measurement of the quadriceps muscle

Treatment groups

No treatment groups listed

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

Bilateral ultrasound depth of the quadriceps femoris muscle

Bilateral ultrasound depth of the quadriceps femoris muscle: The ultrasound consists of 3 measurements per side of the thickness of the rectus femoris muscle. The ultrasound loops will be recorded on an ultrasound machine (GE) after anonymisation. The images will be analysed a posteriori by the principal investigator and the associate investigators, experts in ultrasound analysis of this muscle.

Time frame

24 hours

Locations

This trial has no locations.

Sponsors and contacts

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University Hospital, Toulouse

Lead sponsor

Source ClinicalTrials.gov

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