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NIPE as an Indicator of Pain in Sedated/Ventilated Patient Under 3 Years-old Hospitalized in Intensive Care Unit

Official Title Evaluation of the Value of Newborn Infant Parasympathetic Evaluation (NIPE) in Sedated/Ventilated Patients in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Status
Completed
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT04195672
Acronym
NIPE
Enrollment
32
Registered
2019-12-12
Start date
2017-11-01
Completion date
2019-04-30
Last updated
2019-12-12

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Conditions

Ventilator Lung; Newborn

Keywords

Pediatric, Pain, Heart rate variability, Intensive care unit, Analgesia

Brief summary

The main objective is to assess correlation between Newborn Infant Parasympathetic Index values and external evaluation by Comfort Behaviour Scale during painful medical cares in sedated intubated children admitted in pediatric intensive care unit.

Detailed description

The assessment of pain in patient hospitalized in intensive care remains a challenge, especially for patients which are unable to communicate their pain intensity. Self-reported scales are widely used for children's pain assessment but cannot be used in sedated or non-communicable patients. The gold standard for pain evaluation in sedated-ventilated patient in pediatric intensive care unit is the Comfort Behaviour Scale (CBS). However, this method remains subjective, depending on training and ability to use this clinical tool by the examiner. The Newborn Infant Parasympathetic Evaluation (NIPE) is a non-invasive system based on the analysis variability in high frequency (\> 0.15 Hz) which reflects the parasympathetic activity related to respiratory fluctuations of heart rate. With a numerical index ranging from 0 to 100, NIPE values, measured continuously, has been developed to evaluate the degree of pain intensity. In this study, the hypothese is the NIPE could be used as an indicator of pain in sedated/intubated children under 3 years-old hospitalized in Pediatric intensive care unit. This study did not change the procedure of care before or after and had no impact on care.

Interventions

DEVICENIPE (MDoloris®) and CBS values

During different procedures of care with the bed-side nurse, NIPE ware recorded. Monitoring started 15 minutes before care and continuously recorded until 10 minutes after the procedure. Pain assessment was evaluated by the CBS under 3 periods for each patient: 1- before any procedure (T1) representing the baseline, 2- during the procedure of care (T2), and 3- after the procedure (T3). Investigator who performed the CBS was blind to NIPE during the procedure recording. This study did not change the procedure of care before or after and had no impact on care

Sponsors

University Hospital, Lille
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
No minimum to 3 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* All consecutive patient ≤ 3 year-old, mechanically ventilated

Exclusion criteria

* Withdraw life-support, * unstable condition preventing planned routine procedures of care, * conditions precluding the use of NIPE (cardiac transplant, absence of sinus cardiac rhythm, apnea or respiratory rate ≤ 25 /min, pacemaker and use of atropine and/or isoprenaline and conditions of days of availability for NIPE)

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Comfort Behaviour ScaleThrough the study completion (18 months)Comparison between Newborn Infant Parasympathetic Evaluation values (0 to 100) and Comfort Behaviour Scale values (8 to 40) assessed by coefficient of correlation in patients upper than three years old
Newborn Infant Parasympathetic EvaluationThrough the study completion (18 months)Comparison between Newborn Infant Parasympathetic Evaluation values (0 to 100) and Comfort Behaviour Scale values (8 to 40) assessed by coefficient of correlation in patients upper than three years old

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Newborn Infant Parasympathetic EvaluationThrough the study completion (18 months)Determination of pain detection threshold with Newborn Infant Parasympathetic Evaluation scale (0 to 100) using receiving operator characteristics (ROC) curve

Countries

France

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026