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Assessment of Sleep Quality of Hospitalized Patients Treated With EEG-guided Protection Procedures: Application in Intensive Care Unit

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Intensive Care Unit
Critically Ill Patient
Sleep Quality
Interventions
Other: Control condition
Device: EEG-guided sleep protection
Registration Number
NCT05963672
Lead Sponsor
Poitiers University Hospital
Brief Summary

Sleep of critically ill patients is highly disturbed with a high sleep fragmentation; patients spend most of their sleep in very short sleep episodes, lasting less than 10 minutes. Causes of theses sleep alterations are complex including environmental noise (alarms, beepers, conversations...), continuous light, nurse care and repetitive measures of vital parameters.

Numerous studies have reported a relationship between severe sleep alterations and a prolonged weaning period and mortality. Improving sleep quality in critically ill patients is a major challenge to promote ICU patient's recovery.

A very promising treatment is the application of a nocturnal " quiet-time " during which non urgent care, comfort care, systematic measures of vital parameters are delayed and clustered in order to limit room entries. However, " quiet time " procedures have failed to improve sleep quality to date.

A miniaturized medical device recording one EEG channel and embedding an automated sleep scoring algorithm running in real-time was devised. This device (positioned on forehead, and continuously recording noise and light levels) indicates if the patient is awake or asleep using a tablet positioned at doorstep of the room, so that nurses know if patient is sleeping, without entering the room.

Hypothesis proposes that applying sleep protection procedures (clustering cares, limiting room entries, reducing lights and noise, delaying non urgent care...) when patients are sleeping (= EEG-guided strategies) will increase patients sleep quality.

This study will assess the effect of such device on sleep quality in ICU patients. This is a "before / after" design. The first group ("control group"), will be recorded but the sleep scoring will not be displayed by the tablet and patient will be expose to standard care. Then, procedure will be established collegially with nurses, nurses assistants and doctors. Then, the second group ("treated group") will be recorded with the device displaying the status of the patient (asleep/awake) and all caregivers will be asked to follow the established rules ("EEG-guided sleep protection rules")

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
60
Inclusion Criteria
  • Adults admitted in medical ICU of University Hospital of Poitiers

    • Un-sedated patients displaying a RASS scale between -2 and +1
    • Intubated or spontaneously breathing patients
    • Patient or family have signed the inform consent
Exclusion Criteria
  • Patients with a central nervous system disease altering sleep scoring
  • Patients who received drugs (<24h) modifying significantly EEG and sleep scoring
  • Patients with cutaneous erosion of the scalp

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SEQUENTIAL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Usual CareControl condition-
EEG-guided sleep protectionEEG-guided sleep protection-
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Sleep qualityDay 1 to Day 4

Proportion of continuous sleep

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Sleep fragmentationDay 1 to Day 4

Number of awakenings and micro-awakenings per hour of sleep

Environmental noise and environmental lightDay 1 to Day 4

Number of peak noise end time spent above 20 lux

Sleep interruptions by caregiversDay 1 to Day 4

Number of room entries while patient is asleep

Sleep qualityDay 2 to Day 4

Proportion of continuous sleep

Workload assessed by nursesDay 1 to Day 4

Score at specific scale assessing workload. From 1- no workload to 10- significant additional workload.

Patient AgitationDay 1 to day 4

Number of patients with diminishing (-1 point) Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale (RASS) score. 10 Agitation-Sedation scale items From +4 (combative) to -5 (non-recoverable)

Performance of the algorithmDay 1 to Day 4

Number of sleep episodes lasting more than 10 min correctly identified by algorithm (versus vision scoring)

Patient reported sleep qualityDay 1 to day 4

Score et richards-Campbell sleep questionnaire. It consist of 6 questions, each question scored from 0 to 100. Higher score mean the better sleep

Anxiety levelDay 1 to day 4

Score at Spielberger Y-A scale.It consist of 12 questions, each rated on a scale with 4 response options. Lower score means a minimal anxiety level.

Respiratory statusAt Unit care discharge, an average of 14 days

Weaning duration (number of days), ventilator free days and respiratory status at discharge

Presence of deliriumDay 1 to Day 4

Number of days with positive Confusion Assessment Method(CAM)-ICU scale. It is made up of 4 criteria. The test is POSITIVE (confusion present) if 1 and 2 + 3 or 4 are met.

Unit Care length of stayAt Unit care discharge, an average of 14 days

Number of days in ICU

Safety of the procedureOne day after Unit Care discharge, an average of 15 days

Numbers of Serious adverse events and Material defect events

Sleep continuityDay 1 to Day 4

Part of sleep time past in more than 10 minutes episodes

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

CHU Poitiers

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Poitiers, France

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