Assessment of limb muscle strength in critically ill Patients: A systematic Review

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 701-711

  Vanpee, Goele ^a,b   Hermans, Greet ^b   Segers, Johan ^a,b   Gosselink, Rik ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

adult; critical illness; muscle strength; muscle strength dynamometer; muscle weakness; reliability of results

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE STRENGTH DYNAMOMETER; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY AS TOPIC; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84894496101     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000030     Document Type: Review

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