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Study on the Incidence of Delirium in a Respiratory Weaning Centre

NCT00611377 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2008-02-08

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Summary

Delirium is rather common among patients in Intensive Care Units (ICU), while little is known about its incidence in ventilator-dependent patients transferred to a Weaning Center (WC), once in a phase of clinical stability. We will prospectively evaluate for the presence of delirium all the ventilator-dependent patients admitted to our WC over a period of two years. They will be monitored using the Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist (ICDSC), previously validated in the ICU setting. This evaluation is based on a score based on 8 items obtained with a simple examination by the attending physician. The final sum generates a score considered normal (0-1), borderline (2-3) and pathologic (\>4). All the patients, except those with normal score, will also be evaluated by a psychiatrist, using the Diagnostic Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), considered the gold standard. The score will be assessed at patient's admission, at mid-hospital stay and at discharge.

Conditions

  • Delirium

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Piero M Ceriana · Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-01-31
Primary Completion
2008-02-29
Completion
2008-03-31

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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