Chair time in ICU may boost recovery for ventilated patients
NCT ID NCT06973746
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at whether moving patients on breathing machines out of bed and into a chair helps them regain strength and function better than staying in bed. About 150 adults in the ICU will be randomly assigned to either chair sitting or bed rest. The goal is to see if chair positioning improves muscle recovery and mobility by the time they leave the ICU.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 150 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jul 2025
- Expected to finish
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Jan 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Patient \> 18 years old 2. Patient on invasive mechanical ventilation for more than 24 hours 3. Patient in recovery phase with a RASS score greater than "-3" for more than 12 hours 4. Stay expected to last 48 hours 5. Patient has never been placed in a chair during this hospitalization in intensive care. 6. Fragility score \< 6, during the month preceding admission to intensive care 7. Patient (or support person/relative if patient is unable to participate) who has agreed to take part in the study. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patient with an absolute and non-resolving contraindication to chair positioning 1. Fracture or orthopedic disorder contraindicating mobilization out of bed 2. Obesity with body mass index greater than 45 kg/cm2 3. Sacral eschar stage greater than 2 2. Patient using a wheelchair for mobility (i.e. paraplegic patient or patient with progressive neurological pathology). 3. Patient treated with veno-venous or veno-arterial ECMO at the time of screening. 4. Moribund patient 5. Encephalic death 6. Acute polyradiculoneuritis (Guillain-Barré syndrome) 7. Myasthenia 8. Patient treated by continuous hemodialysis or hemofiltration for more than 72 hours following the onset of awakening. 9. Complete transmetatarsal or higher amputation of one or both lower limbs. 10. Protected person (under guardianship or curatorship) 11. Person under court protection 12. Person not affiliated to a social security scheme 13. Pregnant or breast-feeding woman 14. Patient already included in the study 15. Patient taking part in an interventional clinical study, the aim of which is to show an improvement in functional level on discharge from the intensive care unit or which focuses on the theme of early rehabilitation in the intensive care unit.
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Conditions
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How to take part
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The places running it
11 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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CH Chartres
RECRUITINGLe Coudray, 28630, France
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CH de DAX
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGDax, 40100, France
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CH de Saint-Lô
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGSaint-Lô, France
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CHI Mont de Marsan
RECRUITINGMont-de-Marsan, 40012, France
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CHRU de TOURS
RECRUITINGTours, France
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CHU Clermont Ferrand
RECRUITINGClermont-Ferrand, France
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CHU de DIJON
RECRUITINGDijon, France
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Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Orléans
RECRUITINGOrléans, Centre-Val de Loire, 45067, France
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Ch Du Mans
RECRUITINGLe Mans, 72037, France
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Hopital Foch
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGSuresnes, France
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Hopital Nord Franche Comte
RECRUITINGBelfort, France
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