• Crit Care · Jan 2011

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    Should we abandon manual muscle strength testing in the ICU?

    • Rik Gosselink and Greet Hermans.
    • Medical Intensive Care Unit, Department of General Internal Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium.
    • Crit Care. 2011 Jan 1;15(2):127.

    AbstractIntensive-care-unit-acquired weakness is a major complication in critically ill patients. The paper by Hough and coworkers suggests that the current method of manual muscle strength testing with the Medical Research Council sum score is of limited value in the intensive care unit. However, their results raise a number of questions and provide important lessons for implementation of such evaluations in the intensive care unit.

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