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Administrative data

NCT number NCT04303650
Other study ID # 5968-5-3-2020
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase
First received
Last updated
Start date March 15, 2020
Est. completion date November 30, 2023

Study information

Verified date December 2023
Source Zagazig University
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Observational [Patient Registry]

Clinical Trial Summary

Loss of muscle mass is a major cause of intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICU-AW) and is associated with delayed weaning; prolonged ICU and hospital stay and is an independent predictor of one year mortality. Theoretically, the best strategy to minimize muscle loss during ICU stay, is delivering an appropriate nutritional support. Studying the correlation between the sequential assessments of quadriceps femoris muscle layer thickness (QMLT) by the aid of Ultrasound in addition to the traditional method (NB) for assessment of nutritional status may be helpful to predict outcome and mortality.


Description:

Protein catabolism and proteolysis, mainly in the skeletal muscles is highly accelerated in critical illness with severe acute inflammatory processes, such as sepsis, burns, and polytrauma patients. The resulting catabolic state may be linked to immunosuppression, poor wound healing, and intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICU-AW), which are associated with delayed recovery and increased mortality. In order to prevent muscle-protein depletion, several strategies have been proposed. One of them is adequate nutrition. Higher protein intake appears to be beneficial and could mitigate the negative catabolic state by increasing the availability of exogenous amino acids. The adequacy of protein intake could only be optimized by appropriate monitoring. Nitrogen balance (NB) is the commonly used tool in this context. It is considered a good marker of adequate protein intake, easy, and available method of assessing the success of nutritional therapy as it reflects the gain or loss of total body proteins by calculating the difference between dietary nitrogen intake and nitrogen losses. Moreover, a considerable reduction in muscle mass begins within the first 3 days of ICU admission and progressively worsens; therefore quantifying the muscle size may help in recognizing patients at risk of ICU acquired weakness and also may guide the interventions to prevent this complication. So, it may help in monitoring the adequacy of nutritional therapy and protein intake. The primary methods that have been explored to measure musculature include computed tomography (C.T), magnetic resonance imagining (MRI), ultrasonography (US), and bioimpedance. Ultrasonography as a noninvasive, practical, readily available, and bedside technique could be considered the first option for the quantification of muscle size in these patients. The quadriceps muscle is the most studied muscle found to have strong correlation with muscle mass and strength. Its size can be measured by either the quadriceps muscle layer thickness (QMLT) or the cross-sectional area (CSA). However, QMLT have greater practicability as measurements could be obtained rapidly and in real time as well as it easier to identify than CSA. Since, monitoring is the key to individualize and optimize the critical protein intake. We hypothesized that QMLT evaluation by ultrasound could be used to guide nutritional protein intake and is correlated to conventional monitoring with nitrogen balance in critically ill trauma patients.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 186
Est. completion date November 30, 2023
Est. primary completion date October 30, 2023
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 18 Years to 60 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - Anticipated to be mechanically ventilated to >48hour and expected to Stay in ICU > 4 days. - No contraindication to early enteral nutrition. - Enteral feeding in the first 24 hours after admission, with a minimum protein contribution of 1 gm / kg / day. - We recruited only well nourished, previously healthy patients with no past history of nutritional problems. Exclusion Criteria: - Patients with preexisting neuromuscular pathology, lower limb amputation, skeletal fractures or immobilization in the previous 2years. - Patients with relevant Co-morbidities (renal, liver or heart disease or COPD), previous immune abnormalities including those receiving corticosteroids, and those with past or recent history of cancer. - Patients with anuria owing to the difficulty in evaluating excreted urea nitrogen - Whose ultrasound data will be missing or incomplete - Pregnancy - Patients who will not reach the goal in enteral protein intake for any reason (gastrointestinal intolerance, contraindication to enteral feeding or repeated interruptions of enteral feeding due to multiple surgical procedures) or those who start parenteral nutrition.

Study Design


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Intervention

Device:
Ultrasound measurement of quadriceps muscle layer thickness
With patient in supine position ultrasound will be performed using a 12MHZ Transducer connected to Sonosite M Turbo machine. The probe will be placed perpendicular to the long axis of the thigh on its anterior surface at the two thirds of the length between the anterior superior iliac spine and the upper border of the patella. After identifying the muscle tissue, the thickness of the quadriceps muscle will be obtained by measuring the distance between the cortex of femur and the most superficial muscular fascia. Measurements will be performed by applying maximal compression on the probe without inflicting pain to prevent underestimation of muscle wasting linked to subcutaneous edema. measurements will be made on both sides repeatedly on ICU days 1, 3, 7, and 10. Every time three ultrasound measurements will be taken per site and the average of three measurements for each site will be used and combined to provide total muscle depth

Locations

Country Name City State
Egypt Emergency and Surgical Intensive Care Units, Zagazig University Hospitals Zagazig Sharkia

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Zagazig University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

References & Publications (12)

Andonovska, B.J., Andonovski, A.G., Kuzmanovska, B., Kartalov, A., Temelkovski, Z. the influence of nutrition on muscle wasting in critically ill patients - a pilot study.Sanamed 2018; 13(3):235 - 41

Felicetti-Lordani CR, Eckert RG, Valerio NMP,et al. Nitrogen balance in nutritional monitoring of critically ill adult patients:A prospective observational study.Yogun Bakim Derg 2018; 8: 59-64.

Fock RA, Blatt SL, Beutler B, Pereira J, Tsujita M, de Barros FE, Borelli P. Study of lymphocyte subpopulations in bone marrow in a model of protein-energy malnutrition. Nutrition. 2010 Oct;26(10):1021-8. doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2009.08.026. Epub 2009 Dec 29. — View Citation

Latronico N, Herridge M, Hopkins RO, Angus D, Hart N, Hermans G, Iwashyna T, Arabi Y, Citerio G, Ely EW, Hall J, Mehta S, Puntillo K, Van den Hoeven J, Wunsch H, Cook D, Dos Santos C, Rubenfeld G, Vincent JL, Van den Berghe G, Azoulay E, Needham DM. The ICM research agenda on intensive care unit-acquired weakness. Intensive Care Med. 2017 Sep;43(9):1270-1281. doi: 10.1007/s00134-017-4757-5. Epub 2017 Mar 13. — View Citation

Liebau F, Wernerman J, van Loon LJ, Rooyackers O. Effect of initiating enteral protein feeding on whole-body protein turnover in critically ill patients. Am J Clin Nutr. 2015 Mar;101(3):549-57. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.114.091934. Epub 2015 Feb 4. — View Citation

McClave SA, Taylor BE, Martindale RG, Warren MM, Johnson DR, Braunschweig C, McCarthy MS, Davanos E, Rice TW, Cresci GA, Gervasio JM, Sacks GS, Roberts PR, Compher C; Society of Critical Care Medicine; American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. Guidelines for the Provision and Assessment of Nutrition Support Therapy in the Adult Critically Ill Patient: Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.). JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2016 Feb;40(2):159-211. doi: 10.1177/0148607115621863. No abstract available. Erratum In: JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2016 Nov;40(8):1200. — View Citation

Nakanishi N, Oto J, Tsutsumi R, Iuchi M, Onodera M, Nishimura M. Upper and lower limb muscle atrophy in critically ill patients: an observational ultrasonography study. Intensive Care Med. 2018 Feb;44(2):263-264. doi: 10.1007/s00134-017-4975-x. Epub 2017 Nov 6. No abstract available. — View Citation

Price KL, Earthman CP. Update on body composition tools in clinical settings: computed tomography, ultrasound, and bioimpedance applications for assessment and monitoring. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2019 Feb;73(2):187-193. doi: 10.1038/s41430-018-0360-2. Epub 2018 Oct 30. — View Citation

Puthucheary ZA, Rawal J, McPhail M, Connolly B, Ratnayake G, Chan P, Hopkinson NS, Phadke R, Dew T, Sidhu PS, Velloso C, Seymour J, Agley CC, Selby A, Limb M, Edwards LM, Smith K, Rowlerson A, Rennie MJ, Moxham J, Harridge SD, Hart N, Montgomery HE. Acute skeletal muscle wasting in critical illness. JAMA. 2013 Oct 16;310(15):1591-600. doi: 10.1001/jama.2013.278481. Erratum In: JAMA. 2014 Feb 12;311(6):625. Padhke, Rahul [corrected to Phadke, Rahul]. — View Citation

Rai J, Gill SS, Kumar BR. The influence of preoperative nutritional status in wound healing after replacement arthroplasty. Orthopedics. 2002 Apr;25(4):417-21. doi: 10.3928/0147-7447-20020401-17. — View Citation

Singer P, Blaser AR, Berger MM, Alhazzani W, Calder PC, Casaer MP, Hiesmayr M, Mayer K, Montejo JC, Pichard C, Preiser JC, van Zanten ARH, Oczkowski S, Szczeklik W, Bischoff SC. ESPEN guideline on clinical nutrition in the intensive care unit. Clin Nutr. 2019 Feb;38(1):48-79. doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2018.08.037. Epub 2018 Sep 29. — View Citation

Weinel LM, Summers MJ, Chapple LA. Ultrasonography to measure quadriceps muscle in critically ill patients: A literature review of reported methodologies. Anaesth Intensive Care. 2019 Sep;47(5):423-434. doi: 10.1177/0310057X19875152. Epub 2019 Oct 22. No abstract available. — View Citation

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Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary correlation between Nitrogen Balance and quadriceps muscle layer thickness (QMLT) To determine the correlation between Nitrogen Balance and QMLT detected by ultrasound 10 days
Secondary relationship between QMLT, pre-albumin, and CRP To determine the correlation between pre-albumin and CRP and QMLT detected by ultrasound 10 days
Secondary The impact of QMLT and NB on 28 day mortality. To determine the correlation between nitrogen balance and QMLT detected by ultrasound and the outcome by 28 day mortality. 28 day
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