NCT04746079

Positive Imagery Therapy and the Incidence of Emergence Reactions With the Use of Ketamine

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 180 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Mercy Health Ohio · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if positive imagery therapy while using ketamine in procedural sedation reduces the number of emergence reactions and impacts pre and post-procedural anxiety.

Detailed description

This is a multi-center, randomized controlled trial looking at if positive imagery therapy while using ketamine during procedural sedation will reduce the number of emergence reactions and impacts pre and post procedural anxiety. After informed consent has been established and the subject is determined to meet eligibility criteria, participants will be randomized into 2 groups. The interventional group will undergo positive imagery therapy during sedation and the control will not. The duration of subject participation will be from the onset of sedation beginning until the patient is recovered.

Conditions

• Procedural Sedation
• Emergence Delirium

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Positive Imagery Therapy	Perform procedural sedation with slow push of ketamine, 1.5mg/kg, over thirty seconds while reading the Positive Imagery Therapy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-02-05
• Primary completion: 2023-02-01
• Completion: 2023-02-01
• First posted: 2021-02-09
• Last updated: 2022-09-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States