Communication Enhancement Among Ventilated Patients in Intensive Care
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Conditions studied: Critical Care, Intensive Care
In brief
Intensive care is a unit that admits ventilated patients. Hospitalization is extremely challenging for these patients. Their vital prognosis is at stake, and they often have difficulty moving due to pain, edema, neuromyopathy, or the presence of monitoring cables. They are also hindered in their communication: they cannot speak because of the presence of the intubation tube between their vocal cords or the tracheostomy cannula with the inflated cuff. Every day, in each intensive care unit, about 50% of ventilated patients are conscious and face communication difficulties. They describe this difficulty as a "nightmare." This leads to challenges in care management and increases the anxiety caused by hospitalization in the intensive care unit. A large proportion of patients will develop post-intensive care syndrome. The tools currently used are not efficient. Moreover, many patients have comprehension difficulties due to the medications administered to them (sedatives) or due to the initial or secondary pathologies related to their hospitalization (confusional syndrome, ICU delirium). Our objective is to implement an adapted and personalized communication tool for ventilated patients in intensive care.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT07251530
- Run by
- University Hospital, Tours
- People needed
- 60
- Starts
- 2026-03-19
- Expected to finish
- 2027-06-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-05-04
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Intubated ventilated ICU patient
- Hospitalized patient with an inflated cuff tracheostomy
- conscious patient, able to open and close eyes on demand
- of-age patient
- French speaking
You may not qualify if…
- Patient with uncorrected visual impairment or hearing deficiency
- Known guardianship or trusteeship at the time of inclusion
- Known pregnant women at the time of inclusion and lactating patients
- opposed to the processing of personal data
Where it is running
- Intensive care, University Hospital — Tours, France (enrolling)
- Intensive care, Hospital, Le MANS — Le Mans, France
- Intensive care, University Hospital, Orléans — Orléans, France
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