Post-ICU Consultation : a Time to Discuss Advance Directives (CoPRADA)

Regional University Hospital Center (CHRU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Advance Care Planning; Post Intensive Care Syndrome; Advance Directives

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05817500

29BRC21.0335 - CoPRADA

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to assess the possibility of discussing advance directives during post-intensive care consultation.

Full description

After a stay in intensive care units (ICU), patients can experience physical, psychological and cognitive impairments. To assess this post intensive care syndrom (PICS), post-ICU consultation have been developed.

Since 5 year mortality is higher in ICU survivors, it might be interesting to address those patients' views relating to illness and end of life through a discussion on advance directives (AD), during post-ICU consultation.

However, the development of these consultations being recent, it has not yet been assessed whether this consultations might be a suitable time to discuss AD and the intensivit a suitable interlocutor.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with 48 hours of mechanical ventilation
• Patients with a 5 days stay in ICU

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with therapeutic limitation discussed during their ICU stay
• Geographical remotness to come to the post-ICU consultation
• Minor patients
• Patient not affiliated to the social security scheme

Trial design

40 participants in 1 patient group

ICU patients with > 48h mechanical ventilation and/or > 5 days stay in ICU