Palliation of Thirst in ICU Patients

Completed · Early Phase 1

Conditions studied: Thirst

In brief

Patients in Intensive Care Units are often extremely thirsty due to their medicines, illness, treatments or medicines that they receive. This study will test whether patients who receive a easy to implement intervention for thirst will have greater relief from thirst than a group of patients who do not receive the intervention. The study will also identify the most important factors that make ICU patients thirsty so that future research studies can test how to relieve those factors and/or make interventions for thirst more readily available.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01015755

Run by

University of California, San Francisco

People needed

353

Starts

2010-01-01

Expected to finish

2012-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-03-08

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• must be able to self-report thirst intensity or distress

You may not qualify if…

• unable to self-report thirst
• comatose

Where it is running

• University of California San Francisco — San Francisco, California, United States

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