Enhancing Palliative Care in ICU

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Conditions studied: Palliative Care

In brief

The aim of this study is to reduce the suffering in intensive care through palliative care consultations.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06605079

Run by

Charite University, Berlin, Germany

People needed

2040

Starts

2024-10-10

Expected to finish

2027-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2025-09-30

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Patients in ICU who can give consent and those who can not (via their authorized representative or legal guardian, also possible with delayed consent)
• From 18 years
• The leading cause of critical illness is not cancer
• New admission on the participating ICU > 72h
• Assessment of the need for palliative care by the in-charge physi-cian of the ICU, because (1) there is a significant disagreement about ICU treatment or (2) because the physician considers ther-apy limitations for the patient or (3) the physician considers a benefit from specialized PC consultation for ICU physician, nurse, or patient or family.

You may not qualify if…

• Patient is moribund and is expected to die within the next 24h
• Study cohort relatives:
• Inclusion criteria:
• At least one relative(s) of a patient. This may or may not be the legal representative, depending on national legislation.
• Exclusion criteria:
• Refusal by the relative
• Refusal of the patient to participate in the intervention study
• <18 years of age
• Cohort of employees:
• Inclusion criteria
• Employed on the ITS as a doctor/nurse
• Employed in the clinical center as a member of the palliative care consultation service
• Exclusion criterion Refusal to participate

Where it is running

• Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (CCM/CVK),Charité - University Medicine Berlin — Mitte, State of Berlin, Germany (enrolling)
• S.C. Anestesia e Rianimazione 2 - Terapia Intensiva, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria S. Maria della Misericordia — Perugia, Italy (enrolling)
• UOC di Anestesia e Rianimazione Cardio Toraco Vascolare dell'AOU San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona "Scuola Medica Salernitana", Salerno University Hospital — Salerno, Italy (enrolling)
• ICU General Resuscitation (RES UP), General University hospital — Prague, Czechia (enrolling)
• Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (CCM/CVK),Charité - University Medicine Berlin — Wedding, State of Berlin, Germany (enrolling)
• CARITAS Klinik Maria Heimsuchung — Berlin, Germany (enrolling)
• Charité - Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine CBF — Berlin, Germany (enrolling)
• Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine | CVK, Charité - University Berlin — Berlin, Germany (enrolling)
• Evangelisches Krankenhaus Hubertus — Berlin, Germany (enrolling)
• ICU General Resuscitation (RES2) — Prague, Czechia (enrolling)
• Medical and Neurological Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital of Düsseldorf — Düsseldorf, Germany (enrolling)
• Neurosurgical and Traumatological ICU ZI13, University Hospital of Düsseldorf — Düsseldorf, Germany (enrolling)
• Surgical Intensive Care Unit CIA1/CIB1, University Hospital of Düsseldorf — Düsseldorf, Germany (enrolling)
• Universitätsklinikum Halle (Saale): Klinik für Innere Medizin III — Halle, Germany (enrolling)
• Johanna-Etienne Hospital Neuss, Interdisciplinary ICU — Neuss, Germany (enrolling)
• ICU Metabolic, General University hospital — Prague, Czechia (enrolling)
• Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Heraklion — Heraklion, Crete, Greece (enrolling)
• Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Patras — Pátrai, Rio, Greece (enrolling)
• Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis — Alexandroupoli, Greece (enrolling)
• Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit of the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center — Athens, Greece (enrolling)
• Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Alexandra General Hospital — Athens, Greece (enrolling)
• Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Evaggelismos General Hospital — Athens, Greece (enrolling)
• Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Ioannina — Ioannina, Greece (enrolling)
• University Hospital of Larissa, Critical Care Department — Larissa, Greece (enrolling)
• General Intensive Care Unit, Hadassah Medical Organisation — Jerusalem, Israel (enrolling)

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