Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 12:41 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 12:41 PM
NCT ID:
NCT00479661
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* Age more than 18 years
* Clinical need for sedation of an initially intubated (or tracheotomised) and ventilated (with inspiratory assistance) patient
* Prescribed light to moderate sedation (target RASS = 0 to -3) using propofol
* Patients should be randomised within 72 hours from ICU admission and within 48 hours of commencing continuous sedation in the ICU
* Patients should have an expected requirement for sedation more than 24 hours from time of randomisation
* Written informed consent must be obtained according to local regulations before starting any study procedures other than pre-screening
Exclusion Criteria:
* Acute severe intracranial or spinal neurological disorder due to vascular causes, infection, intracranial expansion or injury
* Uncompensated acute circulatory failure at time of randomisation (severe hypotension with mean arterial pressure \[MAP\] \< 55 mmHg despite volume and pressors)
* Severe bradycardia (heart rate \[HR\] \< 50 beats/min)
* AV-conduction block II-III (unless pacemaker installed)
* Severe hepatic impairment (bilirubin \> 101 µmol/l)
* Need for muscle relaxation at the time of randomisation (may only be used for intubation and initial stabilization)
* Loss of hearing or vision, or any other condition which would significantly interfere with the collection of study data
* Burn injuries requiring regular anaesthesia or surgery
* Use of centrally acting α2 agonists or antagonists at the time of randomisation, notably clonidine
* Patients who have or are expected to have treatment withdrawn or withheld due to poor prognosis
* Patients receiving sedation for therapeutic indications rather than to tolerate the ventilator (e.g. epilepsy)
* Patients who are unlikely to require continuous sedation during mechanical ventilation (e.g. Guillain-Barré syndrome)
* Patients who are unlikely to be weaned from mechanical ventilation e.g. diseases/injuries primarily affecting the neuromuscular function of the respiratory apparatus such as clearly irreversible disease requiring prolonged ventilatory support (e.g. high spinal cord injury or advanced amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)
* Distal paraplegia
* Positive pregnancy test or currently lactating
* Received any investigational drug within the preceding 30 days
* Concurrent participation in any other interventional study (any study in which patients are allocated to different treatment groups and/or non-routine diagnostic or monitoring procedures are performed)
* Previous participation in this study
* Any other condition which, in the investigator's opinion, would make it detrimental for the subject to participate in the study
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Study:
NCT00479661
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00479661