Influence of Perioperative Hypnotherapy on Postoperative Improvement in Cognitive Performance (HYPNOC)

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status

Terminated

Conditions

Hypnotherapy

Treatments

Behavioral: Hypnotherapy

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01523938

HYPNOC

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study examines prospects of hypnotherapy in reducing agitation in patients after cardiac or spinal column surgery. A particular aim is to point out the effects on postoperative cognitive outcome. Additional blood and urine tests are conducted (concerning cardiac stratum).

Enrollment

72 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients aged 18 years and older
Patients scheduled for open heart surgery or spinal column surgery
Offered patient information and written informed consent
Mini Mental State > 23
American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status classification system (ASA) 1-3

Exclusion criteria

No informed consent
Patients aged <18 years
Patients living outside Berlin/Potsdam and surrounding area
Less than 5 points in Stanford Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility: Form C; German version (SHSS:C -Weitzenhoffer & Hilgard, 1962; Bongartz, 1999 a)in the screening/recruiting phase
Lacking consent capability or accommodation in an institution due to an official or judicial order
Emergency patients or ambulant patients
Pregnancy and lactation
Coworkers at Charité
Lacking willingness to save and hand out data within the study
Insufficient knowledge of the German language
Participation in another trial according to the German Drug Law the week before inclusion (in the study) and the parallel participation in another trial according to the German Drug Law within the first 3 months after surgery
Acute, severe psychic disease (acute psychotic disorder, severe drug dependency, withdrawal symptoms)
Conditions which make a sufficient information and consequent consent impossible
The patient is under juridical supervision
acute risk of suicide
dementia
patients who suffer from insulin dependent Diabetes mellitus and who have been diagnosed with Diabetes mellitus within the last year
patients who have suffered allergic shock in the past
hardness of hearing, deafness, blindness
cardiac function: ejection fraction (EF) < 30%
Patients undergoing psychotherapeutic treatment
Patients taking awareness-modulating drugs (antipsychotic drugs)
Boozed/primed patients or patients under drug influence
Patients having had an epileptic seizure within the last four weeks
Patients suffering from productive cough
Patients having a chronic low blood pressure (systolic <90mmHg)
Allergies to any ingredient of the electrode fixing material (only for participants of sleep stage assessment)