Pediatric Delirium Screening in the PICU Via EEG
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Delirium
- Sponsor
- St. Justine's Hospital
- Enrollment
- 220
- Primary Endpoint
- In a prospective cohort of children hospitalized in a PICU, the EEG features associated with pediatric delirium (via VEEGix) willl be identified.
- Last Updated
- 5 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Delirium in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is a serious problem that has recently attracted much attention. This study will evaluate the use of electroencephalogram (EEG) for delirium screening in the PICU.
Detailed Description
Primary objective: In a prospective cohort of children hospitalized in a PICU, EEG features associated with pediatric delirium (via VEEGix) will be identified and the diagnostic value to accurately detect delirium of these features will be calculated. Secondary objective: To investigate the accuracy and rapidity of delirium diagnosis with the VEEGix.
Investigators
Laurence Ducharme-Crevier
Pediatric intensivist, Principal Investigator
St. Justine's Hospital
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Eligible for inclusion children 1) \<18 years; and 2) admitted to the PICU at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Ste-Justine (CHUSJ). To select patients at high risk for delirium, one of the following inclusion criteria will be needed: 3) mechanically ventilated patients; or 4) non-invasively ventilated patients (BiPap, Cpap or high flow nasal cannula); or 5) patients receiving opioids; or 6) patients receiving benzodiazepines.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Children 1) suspected of being brain death at the time of PICU entry (Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) 3 and loss of all brain stem reflexes); 2) with significant clinical developmental delay (based on clinical assessment and/or parental report of developmental problems that affected the child's behavior or ability to communicate; Pediatric Cerebral Performance Category ≥4); 3) planned discharge from the PICU the same or next day.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
In a prospective cohort of children hospitalized in a PICU, the EEG features associated with pediatric delirium (via VEEGix) willl be identified.
Time Frame: 1 year recruitment
Variables will include 1) predominant background frequencies: delta 0-3.9 Hz, theta 4-7.9 Hz, alpha 8-11.9 Hz and beta 12-30 Hz and power spectrum (ratio of each frequency/total 0-30Hz), 2) EEG: symmetry (symmetric, mild asymmetry, marked asymmetry) and prevalence (continuous, nearly continuous (1-9% of suppression or attenuation), discontinuous (10-49% of suppression or attenuation), burst suppression or burst-attenuation (50-99% of suppression or attenuation), suppression (\>99% of suppression or attenuation) as measured by percentage per hour of recording)(19). As power across all frequency bands decreases significantly with age, children will be divided 0 to 6 months, 6 months to 3 years and 3-18 years old.
Secondary Outcomes
- To investigate the accuracy and rapidity of delirium diagnosis with the VEEGix.(1 year recruitment)