Non-sedation Versus Sedation With a Daily Wake-up Trial in Critically Ill Patients Receiving Me-chanical Ventilation - Effects on Cognitive Function

Palle Toft

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cognition Disorders; Delirium

Treatments: Other: Non-sedation; Other: Control: Sedation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02035436

S-20130025c

Details and patient eligibility

About

Through many years, the standard care has been to use continuous sedation of critically ill patients during mechanical ventilation. However, preliminary randomised clinical trials indicate that it is beneficial to reduce the sedation level in these patients. The NONSEDA trial is an investigator-initiated, randomised, clinical, parallel-group, multinational, superiority trial designed to include 700 patients from at least six ICUs in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, comparing no sedation with sedation and a daily wake-up trial during mechanical ventilation. This is a substudy of the NONSEDA trial, concerning 250 patients included at trialsite Kolding, Denmark. The aim of the substudy is to assess the effects of no sedation on delirium during admission and cognitive function after discharge from ICU.

Our hypothesis is that critically ill patients who are not sedated during mechanical ventilation will have better cognitive function after discharge.

Enrollment: 205 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Endotracheally intubated
• Expected time on ventilator > 24 hours
• Age ≥ 18 years
• Informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Severe head trauma where therapeutic coma is indicated
• Therapeutic hypothermia where therapeutic coma is indicated
• Status epilepticus where therapeutic coma is indicated
• Patient has participated in the study before
• Patient is transferred from another ICU with length of stay > 48 hours
• Patient is comatose at admission
• PaO2/FiO2 ≤ 9, if sedation is necessary for oxygenation
• Patient does not speak Danish, swedish or norwegian at a reasonable level

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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205 participants in 2 patient groups

Non-sedation

Experimental group

Description:

Non-sedation supplemented with pain management during mechanical ventilation.

Treatment:

Other: Non-sedation

Sedation

Active Comparator group

Description:

Current gold standard: Sedation with a daily wake-up trial.

Treatment:

Other: Control: Sedation