White Noise to Improve Sleep in the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU): a Pilot and Feasibility Study

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Conditions studied: Sleep Deprivation

In brief

A feasibility study to evaluate the use of white noise to improve sleeping conditions in an ICU setting.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03755011

Run by

Yale University

People needed

7

Starts

2018-11-27

Expected to finish

2019-03-15

Last updated by the study team

2019-04-01

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Adults >18yo admitted to MICU with expected stay of at least two nights after enrollment

You may not qualify if…

• Excluding intubated patients (so communication can be better) and patients on high-flow nasal cannula (which is already high background noise).
• Patients who are on therapeutic hypothermia or are on comfort measures only will also be excluded

Where it is running

• Yale New Haven Hospital — New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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