Clinical trial NCT03355053: Investigation of Sleep in the Intensive Care Unit
Official title: Investigation of Sleep in the Intensive Care Unit
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: Delirium
Sleep
Lead sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
First posted: 2017-11-28
Enrollment: 522
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 50
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Single-center, prospective, phase II, double-blind, placebo-controlled, three-arm, parallel-group, mechanistic, randomized clinical trial
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Sleep deprivation is common and often severe in critically ill patients cared for in intensive care units (ICUs) and is hypothesized to be a modifiable risk factor for delirium, which in turn is hypothesized to be a modifiable risk factor for long-term cognitive disability following recovery from critical illness. Dexmedetomidine (Dex) reduces the incidence of delirium in ICU patients by unknown mechanisms. The Investigation of Sleep in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU-SLEEP) Trial aims to determine whether Dex reduces delirium by improving sleep, whether a low- and/or very-low dose continuous infusion of Dex increases delirium-free days more, and the relationship between sleep deprivation in the ICU to long-term cognitive outcomes.

Detailed description: Sleep deprivation is among the most common complaints about the ICU experience. ICU sleep tends to be light and non-restorative (as opposed to deep/restorative sleep), severely fragmented, and distributed throughout the day and night rather than consolidated into nighttime hours. Sleep-deprived patients suffer from sleep debt, a condition of impaired attention and memory, and cognitive slowing. Sleep disturbances in the ICU arise not only from light and noise pollution, but also from drugs that interfere with brain activity involved in restorative sleep. Sleep deprivation has also been suggested as a major modifiable risk factor for acute encephalopathy, also known as delirium. Delirium is an acute state of confusion that affects up to 50% of non-ventilated ICU patients and is one of six leading causes of preventable morbidity and mortality in hospitalized elderly patients. Many patients who survive delirium experience long-term cognitive impairment and loss of independence. Current medications used in the ICU to treat sleep problems (e.g. benzodiazepines, antipsychotics) do not induce natural sleep and do not prevent delirium. In contrast, the investigators have found that the α2-adrenoceptor agonist dexmedetomidine can induce biomimetic sleep, a brain state whose pattern of electroencephalogram (EEG) activity, cerebral blood flow, and functional connectivity approximates restorative sleep. Moreover, a recent large clinical trial in post-surgical patients suggests that low-dose dexmedetomidine given overnight substantially reduces the risk of delirium. It is unknown whether this benefit is linked to improved sleep, or whether patients with better sleep while in the ICU have better long-term cognitive outcomes. The investigator's central hypothesis is that sleep deprivation substantially mediates both the short- and long-term cognitive impairments associated with delirium in critical illness. To test this hypothesis, the ICU-SLEEP trial aims to: 1A) Compare the burden of delirium, as measured by the number of delirium-free days (DFDs), in ICU patients non-ventilated at study enrollment, who are receiving biomimetic sleep induced by Dex, given as a continuous overnight 1) very-low-dose or 2) low-dose infusion vs. 3) usual care and placebo; 1B) Assess whether the 1) very-low-dose continuous overnight infusion of Dex increases DFDs compared to the 2) low-dose continuous overnight infusion; 2A) Determine whether Dex reduces ICU delirium via reducing sleep deprivation, using causal mediation analysis; 2B) Determine the associations between specific components of acute cognitive impairment, seen in sleep deprivation and delirium, with specific measures of sleep deprivation; 3A) Determine whether ICU patients treated with Dex while in the hospital have a lower incidence of long-term cognitive impairment; 3B) Determine whether any differences in long-term cognitive impairment between ICU survivors treated with Dex vs. usual care and placebo are mediated by differences in sleep deprivation. The knowledge gained will provide insights into the mechanisms by which Dex prevents delirium and guidance on the optimal dosing strategy for prophylactic Dex, which can be used to design pivotal phase 3 clinical trials.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria

1. Admitted or scheduled to be admitted to an MGH medical or surgical ICU (Blake 7 or 12, or Ellison 4)
2. Male or female, aged ≥ 50 years
3. Provision of signed and dated informed consent form (by patient or legally authorized representative (LAR))
4. Stated willingness to comply with all study procedures and availability for the duration of the study
5. Not on mechanical ventilation at the time of enrollment
6. Able to be enrolled before 7PM
7. For females of reproductive potential: pregnancy test is negative

Exclusion Criteria

1. Dementia, as measured by a score of ≥3.3 on the Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly Short Form (IQCODE-SF)
2. Unable to be assessed for delirium (e.g. blindness or deafness)
3. Follow-up would be difficult (e.g. active substance abuse, homelessness)
4. Pregnancy or lactation
5. Known pre-existing neurologic disease or injury with focal neurologic or cognitive deficits
6. Serious cardiac disease (e.g. sick sinus syndrome without a pacemaker, sinus bradycardia, second- or third-degree AV block, congestive heart failure with ejection fraction \<30%)
7. Severe liver dysfunction (Child-Pugh class C)
8. Severe renal dysfunction (receiving dialysis)
9. Low likelihood of survival \>24 hours
10. Low likelihood of staying in ICU overnight
11. Known allergic reactions to components of dexmedetomidine
12. Patient is receiving or planning to go on dexmedetomidine at the time of enrollment
13. Patient is receiving either of the anticholinergic drugs scopolamine or penehyclidine; or alpha-2-agonist clonidine
14. Concomitant enrollment in another study protocol that may interfere with data acquisition or reliability of measurements
15. Deemed unsuitable for selection by the research team or ICU providers due to any medical, legal, social, language (non-English speaking) or interpersonal issues that would either compromise the study or the routine care of patients

Primary outcomes:
measure: In-hospital Delirium-free days (IH-DFDs)
timeFrame: First 14 hospital days from start of infusion [or until hospital discharge, whichever occurs first]
Secondary outcomes:
measure: ICU-Delirium-free days (ICU-DFDs)
timeFrame: First 7 ICU days from start of infusion [or until ICU discharge, whichever occurs first]
measure: Sleep Quantity-quality (SQ) score
timeFrame: First 14 ICU days from start of infusion [or until ICU discharge, whichever occurs first]
measure: Acute Cognitive Function (ACF) score
timeFrame: First 14 ICU days from start of infusion [or until ICU discharge, whichever occurs first]
measure: Long-term Cognitive Function (LCF) score
timeFrame: 3-, 6-, and 12 months post-enrollment
Other outcomes:
measure: Spearman correlation coefficient (rho) between sleep quality and acute cognitive function
timeFrame: First 14 ICU days from start of infusion [or until ICU discharge, whichever occurs first]
measure: Average Causal Mediation Effect (ACME) of sleep deprivation on delirium-free days
timeFrame: First 14 ICU days from start of infusion [or until ICU discharge, whichever occurs first]
measure: Average Causal Mediation Effect (ACME) of sleep deprivation on acute cognitive outcomes
timeFrame: First 14 ICU days from start of infusion [or until ICU discharge, whichever occurs first]
measure: Average Causal Mediation Effect (ACME) of sleep deprivation on long-term cognitive outcomes
timeFrame: First 14 ICU days from start of infusion [or until ICU discharge, whichever occurs first]; 3-, 6-, and 12 months post-enrollment
Locations:
city: Boston
country: United States
facility: Massachusetts General Hospital
state: Massachusetts
Study officials:
affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital
name: M. Brandon Westover, MD, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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