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Clinical Trials/NL-OMON56548
NL-OMON56548
Recruiting
Not Applicable

Delirium treatment with Transcranial Electrical Stimulation - DELTES

niversitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht0 sites159 target enrollmentTBD

Overview

Phase
Not Applicable
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
acute encephalopathy
Sponsor
niversitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht
Enrollment
159
Status
Recruiting
Last Updated
last year

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry
who.int
Start Date
TBD
End Date
TBD
Last Updated
last year
Study Type
Interventional

Investigators

Sponsor
niversitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • 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.

Exclusion Criteria

  • 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
  • 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
  • implanted cardiac pacemaker or neurostimulator; skin diseases or inflammations;

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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