Music Therapy is Associated With Decreased Pain and Agitation in Intubated ICU Patients

University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Music Therapy for Pain and Sedation

Treatments: Other: provide headphones with music playing; Other: Sounds

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01316536

10-04501 (Other Identifier)

H9025-35126-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study is designed to analyze the use of music therapy to decrease pain and agitation in intubated ICU patients.

Full description

This is a randomized, prospective single-blinded placebo-controlled study of consecutive intubated ICU patients requiring anxiolytics and analgesic medications. Patients will be randomized into two groups: one group will receive music (MUSIC), whereas the other group (CONTROL) will wear headphones, but hear an audio loop of recorded ICU sounds (vent alarms, ambient noise, talking, etc). The two groups will then be analyzed for sedation and analgesia requirements; Ramsay sedation score, ICP in brain injured patients, ventilator days, ICU length of stay, hospital length of stay, mean arterial blood pressure (MAP).

Enrollment: 5 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• between 18 and 70 years old, requiring intubation andmechanical ventilation, requiring sedation with propofol or benzodiazepines and/or analgesia with narcotics

Exclusion criteria

• hearing loss, psychiatric illness, hemodynamically unstable (requirement for vasopressor support)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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5 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

With Music

Experimental group

Description:

This randomized group will receive music

Treatment:

Other: provide headphones with music playing

Control Arm

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Will not receive music but will receive audio loop of recorded ICU sounds

Treatment:

Other: Sounds