Active clinical trials for "Delirium"

Post-surgical delirium in patients undergoing radical cystectomy. Introduction Delirium occurs after major abdominal surgery may reach about 15% of the patients.(1) Aim The aim of this study is to determine the incidence of delirium after radical cystectomy surgery and the associated risk factors in Alexandria University hospital. Patients and Methods After approval of local ethical committee and patient consent, the study will be done on patients undergoing radical cystectomy surgery in Alexandria University hospitals from January 5th 2019 till January 4th 2020. The 6-item Cognitive Impairment Test (6CIT) and SPMSQ questionnaire will be used. SPMSQ will be done preoperative and daily for 3 days postoperative, at day 7. Phone call for SPMSQ will be done 3, 6, 9 and 12 months after surgery.

Postoperative Delirium (POD) is one of the most common complications occurring after surgery with an incidence ranging from 4 to 53%. It may lead to increased postoperative morbidity and mortality, with loss of independence and cognitive dysfunction in certain groups of patients. Aiming to reduce the incidence of POD and improve the outcome of patients diagnosed with POD, it is necessary to raise awareness regarding POD. The most important issue are: identification of risk factors, improved monitoring, necessary prevention and adequate treatment. The Polish Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy (PTAiIT) has made an attempt to improve the situation in Poland by testing the implementation of official POD guidelines published by the European Society of Anesthesiology in year 2017. While the guidelines provide recommendations for daily practice it is necessary to identify the degree of their implementation in each country. Therefore survey has been prepared regarding postoperative delirium in Poland. This Survey has been submitted to the Bioethical Committee of the Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin (Poland) and received a waiver due to the non-interventional, observational character of the study (decision no. KB-0012/06/01/2020/Z).

The primary endpoint of the study is the appearance of Post Operative Delirium within the first 3 months. The secondary endpoints are the development of POCD, dementia of any type of new onset at 12 months, mortality at 30 days, postoperative hospitalization time (including rehabilitation performed within the Polyclinic).. The analysis of the risk factors of POD and their correlation with the development of POCD/Dementia in the post-surgery period will provide important information for the optimization of the management path of these patients at an individual level , with inevitable repercussions on the possibility of reintegration into social and family life

In this trial, the investigators seek to demonstrate the feasibility of a system in continuously detecting 'inattention' as a subset of CAM-ICU in a small representative sample of patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust.

AUDICS-ICU is a prospective observational aiming to evaluate the prevalence of auditive dysfunction following cardiac surgery. Participants will undergo audiometric testings before and 3 months after cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. Furthermore, the study evaluates hearing loss-associated ICU-acquired delirium after cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass.

Postanesthesia care unit (PACU) delirium is subtype of postoperative delirium that occurs early after anesthesia and surgery during the recovery period. The consequences of PACU delirium have not been investigated thoroughly. So far it is unknown, whether patients with PACU delirium experience impaired postoperative quality of recovery. The aim of this observational study is to assess the impact of PACU delirium on quality of recovery 24 hours after general anesthesia for elective non-cardiac surgery.

With the present study, the authors aim to improve the knowledge of the pathophysiology of ICU-related delirium. In particular, the authors would like to clarify the possible correlation between neuroinflammation, evaluated longitudinally by serum dosage of 20 different neuroinflammation biomarkers, and brain structural and functional alterations (using brain fMRI).

Postoperative delirium is a common and important complication in patients. The aim of this study was to investigate whether preoperative anxiety predicted onset of postoperative delirium in elderly patients undergoing orthopaedic surgery, so as to help develop preventive approaches.

More than 20% of patients over 60 years old develop postoperative delirium following non-cardiac surgery . Delirium increases morbidity and mortality , and may lead to long-term cognitive impairment . The underlying mechanisms behind delirium are not understood , endothelial dysfunction and disruption of the blood brain barrier (BBB ) caused by perioperative systemic inflammation may play a important role in the development of delirium . This study intends to evaluate the relationship between neuroinflammation and postoperative delirium in elderly non-cardiac surgery patients . The results of the study are to identify risk factors and explore the biomarkers most closely linked to each step of the proposed pathway .

The objective of this study is to determine the incidence of delirium in adults patients who are admitted at the critical care unit of a Dutch University Hospital with the mapping of relevant delirium risk factors The primary aim is to validate the investigators' developed delirium prediction model for critical care patients. A secondary aim is to find differences between delirious patients and non-delirious patients on different aspects of diagnostics, treatment and care, outcome, length of stay, and inflammation. According to Dutch law, the need to obtain informed consent was waived by the Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects (CMO) of Nijmegen for this observational study (2007/283).