Electrical muscle stimulation preserves the muscle mass of critically ill patients: a randomized study

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 obstr...

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Autores principales: Gerovasili, Vasiliki, Stefanidis, Konstantinos, Vitzilaios, Konstantinos, Karatzanos, Eleftherios, Politis, Panagiotis, Koroneos, Apostolos, Chatzimichail, Aikaterini, Routsi, Christina, Roussos, Charis, Nanas, Serafim
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2784391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19814793
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc8123

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2784391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19814793
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc8123

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