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Sedation Optimisation Strategy (S.O.S.) Ventilation

Phase 3
Completed
Conditions
Critical Illness
Mechanical Ventilation Complication
Intensive Care Unit Syndrome
Surgery
Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
Interventions
Other: Therapy strategy
Registration Number
NCT01486121
Lead Sponsor
University Hospital, Montpellier
Brief Summary

Use of sedatives and analgesics is common in mechanically ventilated patients hospitalized in Intensive Care Unit (ICU). That is called " sedation " and aimed to reduce both pain and anxiety and also to allow an effective and atraumatic mechanical ventilation. However, sedation excess and ventilator support excess, both in duration and intensity, are associated with an excess morbidity. Patients usually are systematically sedated after having been intubated. Then, sedation is stopped first before ventilator support is weaning. Several studies shown that rationalized protocols of sedation and ventilation orderings had a beneficial impact on non surgical patients' outcome. Feasibility of these protocols in surgical patients is still unknown. Moreover, no study has evaluated an optimized paired strategy of sedation-ventilation based on the priority setting of ventilation. This priority setting of ventilation should increase patient's comfort in spite of increasing sedatives and analgesics dosing. An paired sedation-ventilation protocol optimized for both duration and intensity of these treatments could improve surgical patients' outcome in ICU.

Detailed Description

Intervention group:

* Continuous use of sedatives and analgesics (commonly called "sedation") will be stopped upon enrolment.

* Ventilator asynchrony in Volume assist Controlled Ventilation (VCV) will be treated by switching to Pressure Support Ventilation (PSV) or adjusting setting of VCV.

* Pain, anxiety and agitation will be treated by priority setting of the mechanical ventilator aimed to deliver the most comfortable ventilator support and secondly by adding analgesics and/or psychoactive drugs without inducing a coma state.- Persistent ventilator asynchrony or persistent agitation will be treated by 6-hours continuous sedation periods.

* Extubation will be performed according to criteria defined by the national consensus on mechanical ventilation weaning, which are based on a daily spontaneous breathing trial in the absence of any sedation.

Control group (standard practices):

* Continuous use of sedatives and analgesics (commonly called "sedation") will be daily stopped according to criteria defined by the national consensus on sedation for ICU patients.- During the period before the interruption of sedation, ventilator asynchrony in VCV will be treated by increasing the depth of sedation and then the dose of opioids.

* During the period before the interruption of sedation, pain, anxiety and agitation will be treated by a priority adjustment of sedation according to the nurse driven protocol recommended by the national consensus on sedation for ICU patients.- During the period after the interruption of sedation, ventilator asynchrony will be treated by switching to the PSV mode. In case of return to VCV, asynchrony will be treated by restart of sedation.

* During the period after the interruption of sedation, pain, anxiety and agitation will be treated as for the intervention group.

* Extubation will be performed according to criteria defined by the national consensus on mechanical ventilation weaning, which are based on a daily spontaneous breathing trial in the absence of any sedation.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
140
Inclusion Criteria
  • Ventilated patient in assist control mode after a surgical procedure expected to be ventilated for 12-hours or more
  • At least 1 organ dysfunction according to SOFA score
  • Non paralyzed because of neuromuscular blocking agents
  • Body temperature > or equal 36°CAge > or equal 18
  • Surrogate decision maker's consent
Exclusion Criteria
  • Patients without any surgical procedure (medical patients)
  • Continuous mechanical ventilation for 24-hours or longer
  • Hospitalisation in ICU for 7-days or longer
  • Severe ARDS (Acrasis study criteria, New England J Med 2011)
  • Neurological injury
  • Active toxicomania
  • Reduction or cessation of active treatment
  • Patient under tutelage
  • Pregnancy
  • No French health insurance
  • Enrollment in another study on sedation or mechanical ventilation

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
S.O.S.-VTherapy strategy-
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Time to successful intubationfor 48 hours after intubation

Time to successful intubation is defined as time from randomization to extubation (or tracheotomy mask) for 48 hours.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Length of stay in ICU and hospitalup to 6 months

Length of stay in ICU and hospital

Quality of life, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder 3 and 12 months after ICU dischargeup to 6 months

Quality of life, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder 3 and 12 months after ICU discharge

Incidence and duration of organ dysfunctionsDay 1 to Days 5

Incidence and duration of organ dysfunctions

Dose and duration of sedationDay 0 to Days 28

Dose and duration of sedation

Type and duration of mechanical ventilationDay 0 to Days 28

Type and duration of mechanical ventilation

Complications acquired in ICUDays 28

Complications acquired in ICU stress ulcers ileus infections delirium neuromuscular weakness pain

Mortalityup to 12 months

ICU mortality, 3 months mortality and 12 months mortality

Trial Locations

Locations (3)

Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care, St Eloi University Hospital

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Montpellier, France

Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care, Estaing University Hospital

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Clermont-Ferrand, France

Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care, Caremeau University Hospita

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Nimes, France

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