NCT00507481

Evaluation of Risk Factors of Sleep Quality in Intensive Care Unit

Evaluation of Risk Factors of Sleep Quality in Critically Ill Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: —
• Sponsor: University of Turin, Italy · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between sleep disturbances and delirium in surgical ICU patients. The study set up to test the hypothesis that the occurrence of delirium is associated to the alteration of sleep quality and quantity observed in the critically ill patients.

Detailed description

Sleep disorders are an important clinical entity affecting outcome in respiratory, cardiovascular, metabolic and psychiatric disorders and exacting a potentially significant toll on patients at both a personal and socio-economic level.Delirium is a common organ dysfunction in the critically ill patients characterized by an acute onset of impaired cognitive function \[REF\] associated with prolonged ICU and hospital stay, nosocomial pneumonia, and death.

Conditions

• Sleep Disorders
• Delirium

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-01-01
• Completion: 2007-09-01
• First posted: 2007-07-26
• Last updated: 2008-06-04

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Italy