Effect of Quetiapine in Preventing Delirium in ICU Patients
Phase 3
- Conditions
- patient admitted to the intensive care unit.Delirium due to known physiological condition
- Registration Number
- IRCT20180520039739N5
- Lead Sponsor
- Esfahan University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 98
Inclusion Criteria
Hospitalization in the intensive care unit
Age over 18 years
Patient satisfaction
No alcohol addiction
Healthy vision and hearing or elimination of vision and hearing defects by using glasses and hearing aids
No use of psychoactive drugs
Exclusion Criteria
head trauma
QT prolongation
Encephalopathy
Basal systolic blood pressure above 140
Basal diastolic blood pressure above 90
Tachycardia (beats more than 100 per minute)
History of seizures
Hypersensitivity to quetiapine
intubated patient
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Delirium Frequency. Timepoint: every 8 hours. Method of measurement: The number of episodes of delirium observed in an 8-hour period. This variable measures how often delusions occur in each group And it is measured using the Neecham criterion.;Severity of delirium. Timepoint: every 8 hours. Method of measurement: The intensity or severity of delirium symptoms experienced by participants was measured using the Neecham scale.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method