Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Electrical muscle stimulation preserves the muscle mass of critically ill patients: a randomized study. | Available online http content 13 5 R161 Research Electrical muscle stimulation preserves the muscle mass of critically ill patients a randomized study Vasiliki Gerovasili1 Konstantinos Stefanidis1 Konstantinos Vitzilaios1 Eleftherios Karatzanos1 Panagiotis Politis1 Apostolos Koroneos1 Aikaterini Chatzimichail2 Christina Routsi1 Charis Roussos1 and Serafim Nanas1 Open Access 1First Critical Care Department Evangelismos Hospital National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 45-47 Ypsilantou Str. 106 75 Athens Greece 2Second Department of Radiology Attiko Hospital National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 1 Rimini Str. 12462 Athens Greece Corresponding author Serafim Nanas snanas@ Received 26 Apr 2009 Revisions requested 5 Jun 2009 Revisions received 22 Sep 2009 Accepted 8 Oct 2009 Published 8 Oct 2009 Critical Care 2009 13 R161 doi cc8123 This article is online at http content 13 5 R1 61 2009 Gerovasili et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Critically ill patients are characterized by increased loss of muscle mass partially attributed to sepsis and multiple organ failure as well as immobilization. Recent studies have shown that electrical muscle stimulation EMS may be an alternative to active exercise in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD and chronic heart failure CHF patients with myopathy. The aim of our study was to investigate the EMS effects on muscle mass preservation of critically ill patients with the use of ultrasonography US . Methods Forty-nine critically ill patients age 59 21 years with an APACHE II admission score 13 were randomly assigned after stratification upon admission to receive daily EMS sessions of both lower .
