NCT03610074

Relieve the Patient's Thirst, Refresh the Mouth First (ICU-MIC)

Relieve the Patient's Thirst, Refresh the Mouth First

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 26 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Arras · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Thirst is considered as one of the most distressing symptoms experienced by patients hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Whereas pain is a permanent concern for all caregivers, thirst is often ignored and its complications are poorly known. Mechanisms involved in thirst regulation are numerous and complex. To date, care of thirst is still non optimal. Critically ill patients are usually rehydrated intravenously or using a naso-gastric tube, thus shunting the mouth as a therapeutic target to relieve the patient's thirst. Water, cold and mint applied in mouth were studied separately and were shown to decrease thirst significantly on animal models and healthy humans. Therefore, the hypothesis of this study is that application of small mint ice cubes in mouth of very dehydrated ICU patients should allow decreasing quickly and significantly thirst for these patients, before the correction of their biological parameters, like natremia and osmolarity.

Conditions

• Hypernatremia
• Dehydration

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Mint Ice Cube	Application in patient's mouth of 3 mint ice cubes
PROCEDURE	Blood test	Additional blood test 5 min after mint ice cubes application
OTHER	Patient's questioning	Patient's questioning before mint ice cubes application and at 5 min, 1h, 2h, 4h, 12h and 24h from mint ice cubes application

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-04-23
• Primary completion: 2019-03-08
• Completion: 2019-03-08
• First posted: 2018-08-01
• Last updated: 2019-04-01

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: France