Muscle Function and Muscle Ultrasound in ICU (DYNAMIQUE)

Evaluation of Muscle Function at Discharge From ICU: Evaluation of the Correlation Between Manual Muscle Testing, Dynamometric and Peripheral Ultrasound Parameters

The objective of intensive care therapists is to be able to detect as early as possible the muscle weakness acquired in intensive care, in order to implement curative strategies such as adapted nutrition and early rehabilitation. Various diagnostic tools are available for this purpose. To evaluate muscle mass, CT and MRI remain the gold standard but are difficult to implement in routine practice in ICU and are extremely expensive and can generate radiation for the patient.

Functional muscle evaluation is based on different voluntary tests which are not all able to predict muscle weakness acquired in ICU. In addition, some of the voluntary tests are expensive and require expert staff for practice and interpretation of results.

In addition, a muscle test such as MRC, although having an intraclass coefficient of 0.94, has little predictive value on clinical parameters such as mechanical ventilation duration and is not associated with mortality in the ward. However, it remains the test of choice to define a ICUAW with a threshold value of 48/60 points.

Dynamometry is a tool for measuring muscle strength. The patient is asked to perform a short and intense maximal muscular effort against manual or instrumental resistance. The limb segments must not move, it is an isometric effort. The most common measurement in intensive care units is the dynamometric grip force, called "handgrip".

In ICU, the patient may have touble with awareness, arousal or even comprehension, which will lead to biases in the evaluation of the motor force.

Ultrasound is a tool available in ICU and the muscle component can be assessed qualitatively or quantitatively without the patient's participation. Several studies have also demonstrated that muscle ultrasound is capable of reliably detecting pathological changes, particularly when repeated. Muscle ultrasound could thus help identify patients at higher risk of prolonged complications. Nevertheless, this technique lacks standardization and normative criteria (patient position, probe position, type and number of measurements, target muscle, etc.).

The main objective is to show that the dynamometric force relative to ultrasound thickness of several muscle groups (arm flexors/knee extensors/foot lifters) is correlated with manual MRC testing in intensive care unit (ICU) patients

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Muscle Weakness
• Intervention / Treatment: Diagnostic test: Ultrasound; Diagnostic test: Dynamometric muscular assessment; Diagnostic test: Manual muscular Assessment (MRC-SS)

Detailed Description

When the patient will be under invasive ventilatory support and coma, and will present the inclusion criteria, the investigator will perform ultrasound measurements of muscle thickness on four muscle groups:

• Shoulder Side muscular compartment
• Anterior Arm muscular compartment
• Anterior thigh muscular compartment
• Antero-lateral leg muscular compartment The ultrasound measurements will be made once a day each weekday, until the discharge from ICU.

Ultrasound measurements will be stopped if the patient's condition deteriorates and the ICU team chooses to limit active therapy.

If the patient condition get better, the investigator will perform the first volitional muscle function assessment, as soon as the patient Glasgow scale will score 15/15:

1. Medical Research Council sum score (MRC-ss)
2. Dynamometric strength assessment with the muscular groups used for the MRC-ss Then the volitional muscle assessment will be made once every 3 days, until patient discharges from ICU.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 59
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Elodie POUGOUE TOUKO; Phone Number: +33238744086; Email: elodie.pougoue-touko@chr-orleans.fr
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Aurélie DESPUJOLS; Phone Number: +33238744071; Email: aurelie.despujols@chr-orleans.fr

Study Locations

• France
  • Orléans, France, 45067
    • Recruiting
    • CHR d'Orléans
    • Contact: Guillaume FOSSAT; Email: guillaume.fossat@chr-orleans.fr

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Major patient > 18 years old
• Admission for more than 24 hours in the ICU ward
• Stay must be at least 72 hours

Exclusion Criteria:

• Person with a neuromuscular pathology
• Person presenting an osteoarticular contraindication to mobilization
• Amputee
• Person under guardianship or curatorship
• Person not affiliated to a social security system
• Pregnant Women

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Other: Muscular Assessment; All the patients will received the muscular assessments

Diagnostic test: Ultrasound; Ultrasound measurements of muscle thickness, using a linear probe (high frequency) on four muscle groups: Shoulder Side muscular compartment; Anterior Arm muscular compartment; Anterior thigh muscular compartment; Antero-lateral leg muscular compartment; Diagnostic test: Dynamometric muscular assessment; The principle of electronic dynamometry is to measure an isometric force. To carry out these measurements, the examiner will stand on the side who has to be tested by exerting a pressure diametrically opposite to the patient's movement, thus preventing him/her from carrying out the movement. The patient will perform 3 tests for each movement, the best value will be collected by the examiner. The reference position is : Patient elbowed to the body bent at 90°, with trunk inclination at 30° in the resuscitation bed, lower limbs flat.; Diagnostic test: Manual muscular Assessment (MRC-SS); Following the same positions as for the dynamometer, the examiner will evaluate the 12 motor functions according to the following 60-point rating. With the maximum quote of 5 point representing normal strength and 0 point the total absence of any muscular contraction

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Correlation coefficient between force/thickness ratio and MRC testing.	To show that the dynamometric force relative to ultrasound thickness of several muscle groups (arm flexors/knee extensors/foot lifters) is correlated with manual MRC testing in intensive care medicine patients	Day 28

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Modification in millimeters of ultrasound muscle thickness	Modification in millimeters of ultrasound muscle thickness	Day 28
Change in force measured by dynamometry in patients with more than 2 evaluations	Change in force measured by dynamometry in patients with more than 2 evaluations	Day 28
Medical Research Council sum-score (MRC-ss)	Following the same positions as for the dynamometer evaluation, the examiner will evaluate the 12 motor functions according to the following 60-point rating. With the maximum quote of 5 point representing normal strength and 0 point the total absence of any muscular contraction.	Day 28

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Régional d'Orléans
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Guillaume FOSSAT, CHR d'Orléans

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Herridge MS, Cheung AM, Tansey CM, Matte-Martyn A, Diaz-Granados N, Al-Saidi F, Cooper AB, Guest CB, Mazer CD, Mehta S, Stewart TE, Barr A, Cook D, Slutsky AS; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. One-year outcomes in survivors of the acute respiratory distress syndrome. N Engl J Med. 2003 Feb 20;348(8):683-93. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa022450.
• Cuthbertson BH, Roughton S, Jenkinson D, Maclennan G, Vale L. Quality of life in the five years after intensive care: a cohort study. Crit Care. 2010;14(1):R6. doi: 10.1186/cc8848. Epub 2010 Jan 20.
• Hermans G, Van den Berghe G. Clinical review: intensive care unit acquired weakness. Crit Care. 2015 Aug 5;19(1):274. doi: 10.1186/s13054-015-0993-7.
• Cheung AM, Tansey CM, Tomlinson G, Diaz-Granados N, Matte A, Barr A, Mehta S, Mazer CD, Guest CB, Stewart TE, Al-Saidi F, Cooper AB, Cook D, Slutsky AS, Herridge MS. Two-year outcomes, health care use, and costs of survivors of acute respiratory distress syndrome. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2006 Sep 1;174(5):538-44. doi: 10.1164/rccm.200505-693OC. Epub 2006 Jun 8.
• Kress JP, Hall JB. ICU-acquired weakness and recovery from critical illness. N Engl J Med. 2014 Apr 24;370(17):1626-35. doi: 10.1056/NEJMra1209390. No abstract available.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): February 15, 2021
• Primary Completion (Estimated): March 15, 2025
• Study Completion (Estimated): March 15, 2025

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 4, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 5, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): January 6, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 19, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 18, 2024
• Last Verified: March 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Ultrasound; Intensive care unit; Ultrasonography; Muscle Strength; Critical Care; Dynamometric; Medical Research Council sum score
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Nervous System Diseases; Neurologic Manifestations; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Muscular Diseases; Neuromuscular Manifestations; Muscle Weakness
• Other Study ID Numbers: CHRO-2020-02

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No