Evaluation of Risk Factors of Sleep Quality in Intensive Care Unit

Evaluation of Risk Factors of Sleep Quality in Critically Ill Patients

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00507481

Enrollment

Unknown

Registered

2007-07-26

Start date

2006-01-31

Completion date

2007-09-30

Last updated

2008-06-04

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Conditions

Delirium, Sleep Disorders

Keywords

Sleep, ICU, Delirium, Post surgical ventilated patients, ICU patients

Brief summary

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between sleep disturbances and delirium in surgical ICU patients. The study set up to test the hypothesis that the occurrence of delirium is associated to the alteration of sleep quality and quantity observed in the critically ill patients.

Detailed description

Sleep disorders are an important clinical entity affecting outcome in respiratory, cardiovascular, metabolic and psychiatric disorders and exacting a potentially significant toll on patients at both a personal and socio-economic level.Delirium is a common organ dysfunction in the critically ill patients characterized by an acute onset of impaired cognitive function \[REF\] associated with prolonged ICU and hospital stay, nosocomial pneumonia, and death.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 80 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Adult, postsurgical patients who needed mechanical ventilation for more than 48 hr admitted to the general ICU

Exclusion criteria

* Defined a priori * Were history of chronic dementia, psychosis, mental retardation, stroke syndrome or other primary neurologic disease * Patient refusal to participate * Alcohol and drug abuse.

Countries

Italy

Outcome results