Prospective Electroencephalography Evaluation of Sedation in COVID-19

Goethe University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Corona Virus Infection; Conscious Sedation; Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome; Electroencephalogram; Pathologic Processes

Treatments: Other: Encephalography measurement

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04815109

EEG in COVID-19

Details and patient eligibility

About

Sedation of severe COVID-19 disease are often complicated. We try to find a correlate for this observation by encephalographic studies.

Full description

Sedation of critically ill ventilated coronavirus patients, continues to be a challenging issue. Also, neurological symptoms of severe COVID-19 disease have been described frequently. Difficulties in sedation of these patients have been discussed repeatedly. The aim of this study is to investigate whether an encephalographic correlate can be found. Appropriate processed encephalographic techniques have been used for anesthesia monitoring for many years.

The aim of our study is to collect unrelated processed and raw EEG data of sedated COVID-19 patients and to investigate the correlation to the necessary sedation.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Intubated ventilated patients with SARS-CoV-2 associated acute respiratory distress syndrome and sedation difficulty.

Exclusion criteria

Pre-existing severe cerebral brain damage and dysfunction. For example: previous medial infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, structural epilepsy.

Trial design

50 participants in 1 patient group

critical ill COVID-19

Description:

Critically ill COVID-19 patients with need for ventilation and appropriate sedation

Treatment:

Other: Encephalography measurement