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BIS Monitoring to Detect Deep Sedation

Completed
Conditions
Depressed Level of Consciousness
Mechanical Ventilation Complication
Psychosis Associated With Intensive Care
Disorder; Mental, Sedative
Registration Number
NCT02203344
Lead Sponsor
Capital Medical University
Brief Summary

Studies have shown that prolonged deep sedation is associated with adverse clinical outcomes in adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients. The revised guidelines for management of pain, agitation and delirium by the Society of Critical Care Medicine in 2013 also recommended that adult ICU patients should be maintained at a light level of sedation. The key point in light sedation strategy is the assessment of depth of sedation. At present, sedation is monitored mainly by the subjective clinical score systems, such as the Ramsay Scale, the Riker's Sedation-Agitation Scale (SAS) and the Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale (RASS). However, the subjective and intermittent nature of these scales instruments has limited their application in light sedation algorithm. Consequently, objective and continuous measurement of the level of sedation would be more desirable in clinical practice. In recent years, objective measures of brain function have been of great interests in the evaluation of sedation level, and bispectral index (BIS) has been the most investigated instrument.

Several studies compared BIS with subjective sedation scales in adult ICU patients, and yielded conflicting results. The different approaches to select BIS value may be the most important reason for these inconsistent agreements between BIS and subjective sedation scales. A formal scheme of subjective assessment of the depth of sedation and level of consciousness should incorporate exerting verbal and physical stimuli and observation of the patient's subsequent responses. Our primary aim is to clarify the diagnostic accuracy of BIS in detecting early deep sedation against the reference standard of subjective scale instrument. We hypothesize that BIS monitoring will provide accurate, subjective and continuous evaluation of deepen sedation.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
45
Inclusion Criteria
  • Adult patients are intubated and ventilated within the previous 24 hours, are administered with continuous or intermittent intravenous sedatives and/or analgesics, and are expected to receive mechanical ventilation and sedation for longer than 24 hours
Exclusion Criteria
  • Age under 18 or over 65 years;
  • Continuously infusion of muscle relaxants;
  • Diagnosed or suspected brain diseases, which including brain trauma, intracranial hemorrhage, stroke, brain tumors, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, epilepsy and meningitis;
  • Diagnosed conditions that resulted in a decrease level of consciousness, which including hypoxemia with partial pressure of oxygen in arterial blood less than 60 mmHg, hypotension with systolic blood pressure less than 90 mmHg, hypoglycemia with blood glucose concentration less than 4.1 mmol/L, anemia with hemoglobin concentration less than 70 g/L, and body temperature below 36 °C.

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
The primary aim of present study is to determine the diagnostic accuracy of BIS monitoring for detecting deep sedation against the reference standard of RASS.15 minutes before and after RASS evaluation

According to RASS evaluation, observations in each time point will be stratified into 2 situations: light sedation (RASS= 0 to -2) and deep sedation (RASS= -3 to -5). Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve analysis will be applied to determine the probability of BIS values in predicting deep sedation.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Incidence of deep sedation24 hours after establishing of BIS monitoring
Occurrence of deep sedation during day- and night-time24 hours after establishing of BIS monitoring

Day-time is defined as 8AM to 8PM, and night-time as 8PM to 8AM.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Department of Critical Care Medicine, Daxing Teaching Hospital, Capital Medical University

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Beijing, Beijing, China

Department of Critical Care Medicine, Daxing Teaching Hospital, Capital Medical University
🇨🇳Beijing, Beijing, China

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