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Sleep Promotion in Critically Ill and Injured Patients Cared for in the Intensive Care Unit

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University of Arizona

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Sleep Deprivation

Treatments

Other: Sleep Enhancement Program (SEP)

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01082016
ABRC 9-022

Details and patient eligibility

About

Sleep deprivation in healthy volunteers is associated with immune dysfunction. This adverse effect of sleep deprivation likely occurs in patients suffering from acute injury and critical illness requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission. Studies have demonstrated that sleep in ICU patients is highly abnormal. The global hypothesis for this proposal is that a strategy to promote sleep in ICU patients will increase time in rapid eye movement (REM) and slow wave sleep (SWS). This three phase proposal examines the feasibility of a sleep promotion strategy for injured and critically ill patients in the ICU.

Phase I (Development and Training): Develop an intervention manual for sleep promotion, Sleep Enhancement Program (SEP), and train ICU staff.

Phase II (Validation and Safety): Implement SEP and test for protocol fidelity and safety.

Phase III (Efficacy): Conduct a pilot trail to determine efficacy of SEP to improve SWS in ICU patients.

Enrollment

75 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 55 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Received care in ICU for at least 3 days
  • Received care in ICU no longer than 14 days
  • Score of 3 to 5 on the Riker Sedation-Agitation Scale (SAS)
  • Age < 55 years
  • Able to tolerate PO or have gastric access present (Nasogastric/Orogastric/PEG)

Exclusion criteria

  • Pregnancy
  • Incarceration
  • Admission diagnosis of Closed Head Injury or Traumatic Brain Injury
  • Evidence of delirium on Confusion Assessment Method (CAM-ICU) Score
  • Hemodynamic Instability
  • Sepsis
  • Multiple Organ Dysfunction
  • Acute Renal Failure
  • Known history of sleep disorder
  • Known Psychiatric disorder

Trial design

75 participants in 2 patient groups

Control
No Intervention group
Description:
Monitor sleep in ICU without attempts at promotion
Sleep promotion
Experimental group
Description:
Measure sleep in ICU with sleep promotion program in effect
Treatment:
Other: Sleep Enhancement Program (SEP)

Trial contacts and locations

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