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Regional Anaesthesia in Intensive Care Unit

Completed
Conditions
Intensive Care Unit
Registration Number
NCT05131633
Lead Sponsor
University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
Brief Summary

Pain is a major problem in Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Adequate pain management not only means decreasing the pain intensity, but also improving the functionality and allowing the early mobilization that is a prerequisite for improving recovery and decreasing the risk of complications in ICU. The complex problems involved in pain, analgesic interventions, and outcome have been emphasized in several surveys over the past decades, but apparently with only small improvements, despite the existence of several guidelines for perioperative pain management.

Regional analgesia techniques (peripheral and neuraxial nerve blocks) have the potential to decrease the physiological stress response to trauma or surgery, reducing the possibility of surgical complications and improving the outcomes. Recent studies suggested that surgical and trauma ICU patients receive opioid-hypnotics continuous infusions to prevent pain and agitation that could increase the risk of posttraumatic stress disorder and chronic neuropathic pain symptoms, and chronic opioid use. Also they may reduce the total amount of opioid analgesics necessary to achieve adequate pain control and the development of potentially dangerous side effects. The use of the regional anesthesia technique in the ICU, however, can, in part, be limited by the presence of hemodynamic instability, bleeding diathesis, and by the fear of the performing procedures potentially associated with significant side effects in heavily sedated patients.

Although regional anesthesia emerges as a new and very interesting player for pain management in ICU, today very few data exists about the use of RA (including PNB and neuraxial nerves blocks) by the practicians in ICU/stepdown units. The main objective of this study is to assess the use of RA for pain management both initiates in the operative room for surgical patients then transferred in ICU/stepdown units and performs directly by the practicians in ICU/stepdown units, in several french units.

Detailed Description

Taken together, previous data indicate that regional anesthesia emerges as a new and very interesting player for pain management in ICU.

Because very few data exist about the use of RA (including PNB and neuraxial nerves blocks) by the practicians in ICU we, therefore, design this multicentric professional practice evaluation to :

* (1) , assess the use of RA in ICU/stepdown units but initiates by anesthesiologist in the operative room

* (2) , assess the use of RA in ICU/stepdown units directly perform by practicians in ICU

* (3) , describe the type, modalities and indications of RA performed

This study will have no effect on the management of the ICU/stepdown units patients.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
100
Inclusion Criteria

○ All medical, surgical, and trauma patients hospitalized in the participating centers and receiving RA during the one-week study period.

Exclusion Criteria
  • Opposition to the processing of personal data
  • Age <18 years old
  • Absolute contraindications to the perform RA
  • Previous hypersensitivity or anaphylactic reaction to local anesthetics
  • Patient under a tutelage measure or placed under judicial protection

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Our primary objective is to assess the global use of RA in ICU/stepdown unitsDuring 1 week of the study

. Number (prevalence) of RA performed in ICU over 1 week.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Type of RADuring 1 week of the study

Nerves block or spinal anesthesia or epidural anesthesia

assess the use, in ICU/stepdown units patients, of RA previously initiated in the operative room by an anesthesiologistDuring 1 week of the study

.Number of RA performed in operative room and then transferred in ICU over a week.

. Prevalence of RA performed in the operative room and then transferred in ICU over a week

Indications for RADuring 1 week of the study

Analgesia or anesthesia or mobilization or nursing or weaning from mechanical ventilation

Duration of catheterDuring 1 week of the study

Duration in days

Evaluation of vital status: on ICU/stepdown units dischargeDay 28 after the RA
Name of local anesthetics usedDuring 1 week of the study

Name of local anesthetics used

Evaluation of analgesiaDuring 1 week of the study

Visual Analog Score for pain)

Evaluation of success or not in RADuring 1 week of the study

Sensitive and/or motor block

Complication of RADuring 1 week of the study

Type of complication

Reason for removal catheteDuring 1 week of the study

Type of reason

Who perform RADuring 1 week of the study

Resident or senior and intensivist or anesthesiologist

Technical management to perform RADuring 1 week of the study

Use of continuous catheter (yes / no)

ICU/stepdown units length of stayDay 28 after the RA

Length in days

Location of RADuring 1 week of the study

ICU or step-down unit or operating room

Concentration of local anesthetics usedDuring 1 week of the study

Concentration in mg/ml

Contraindication for RADuring 1 week of the study

Type of contraindication

Hospital length of stayDay 28 after the RA

Length in days

Evaluation of vital status at day 28Day 28 after the RA

Death or alive

Ventilator-free days to day 28Day 28 after the RA

Unit : days

Trial Locations

Locations (9)

Centre Jean-Perrin

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Clermont-Ferrand, France

HCL Hôpital Sud

🇫🇷

Lyon, France

HCL Centre des Grands Brulés

🇫🇷

Lyon, France

APHP Bichat

🇫🇷

Paris, France

CH

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Saint-Grégoire, France

CHU

🇫🇷

Toulouse, France

APHM la Timone

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Marseille, France

APHM Nord

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Marseille, France

AHPH Saint-Antoine

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Paris, France

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