Delirium treatment with Transcranial Electrical Stimulatio
- Conditions
- acute encephalopathydelirium10012221
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON56548
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 159
Age over 50 years.
Diagnosis of delirium
Richmond Agitation and Sedation Scale (RASS) score of -2 to +2.
Delirium duration of at least two days prior to study inclusion, based delirium
assessments and/or descriptions in the medical and/or nursing files.
Known causes underlying delirium are being treated adequately, as assessed by
the treating physician.
Inability to conduct valid delirium screening assessment (e.g. coma, deaf,
blind) or inability to speak the Dutch or English language.
Patients in a moribund state.
Alcohol/substance abuse withdrawal or stroke as precipitating factor for
delirium.
Diagnosis of dementia, based on medical record review and/or a score of >=4.5 on
the short form of the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the
Elderly (IQCODE).
Standard contra-indications for tACS (history of serious head trauma or brain
surgery; large or ferromagnetic metal parts in the head (except for a dental
wire);
implanted cardiac pacemaker or neurostimulator; skin diseases or inflammations;
epilepsy)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method