Nicotine Replacement Therapy in the Intensive Care Unit

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether transdermal nicotine replacement therapy is safe and effective for treating nicotine withdrawal symptoms in the critically ill smoking patient.

Timeline

Start

2012-06

Primary completion

2016-08

Completion

2016-08

Publications

• Background Hays JT, Ebbert JO. Adverse effects and tolerability of medications for the treatment of tobacco use and dependence. Drugs. 2010 Dec 24;70(18):2357-72. doi: 10.2165/11538190-000000000-00000.
• Background Moss M, Burnham EL. Alcohol abuse in the critically ill patient. Lancet. 2006 Dec 23;368(9554):2231-42. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69490-7.
• Background Benowitz NL. Nicotine addiction. N Engl J Med. 2010 Jun 17;362(24):2295-303. doi: 10.1056/NEJMra0809890. No abstract available.
• Background Hatsukami DK, Stead LF, Gupta PC. Tobacco addiction. Lancet. 2008 Jun 14;371(9629):2027-38. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60871-5.
• Background Mills EJ, Wu P, Lockhart I, Wilson K, Ebbert JO. Adverse events associated with nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) for smoking cessation. A systematic review and meta-analysis of one hundred and twenty studies involving 177,390 individuals. Tob Induc Dis. 2010 Jul 13;8(1):8. doi: 10.1186/1617-9625-8-8.
• Background Lucidarme O, Seguin A, Daubin C, Ramakers M, Terzi N, Beck P, Charbonneau P, du Cheyron D. Nicotine withdrawal and agitation in ventilated critically ill patients. Crit Care. 2010;14(2):R58. doi: 10.1186/cc8954. Epub 2010 Apr 9.
• Background Mayer SA, Chong JY, Ridgway E, Min KC, Commichau C, Bernardini GL. Delirium from nicotine withdrawal in neuro-ICU patients. Neurology. 2001 Aug 14;57(3):551-3. doi: 10.1212/wnl.57.3.551.
• Background Moreno R, Vincent JL, Matos R, Mendonca A, Cantraine F, Thijs L, Takala J, Sprung C, Antonelli M, Bruining H, Willatts S. The use of maximum SOFA score to quantify organ dysfunction/failure in intensive care. Results of a prospective, multicentre study. Working Group on Sepsis related Problems of the ESICM. Intensive Care Med. 1999 Jul;25(7):686-96. doi: 10.1007/s001340050931.
• Background Lee AH, Afessa B. The association of nicotine replacement therapy with mortality in a medical intensive care unit. Crit Care Med. 2007 Jun;35(6):1517-21. doi: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000266537.86437.38.
• Background Paciullo CA, Short MR, Steinke DT, Jennings HR. Impact of nicotine replacement therapy on postoperative mortality following coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Ann Pharmacother. 2009 Jul;43(7):1197-202. doi: 10.1345/aph.1L423. Epub 2009 Jun 30.
• Background Seder DB, Schmidt JM, Badjatia N, Fernandez L, Rincon F, Claassen J, Gordon E, Carrera E, Kurtz P, Lee K, Connolly ES, Mayer SA. Transdermal nicotine replacement therapy in cigarette smokers with acute subarachnoid hemorrhage. Neurocrit Care. 2011 Feb;14(1):77-83. doi: 10.1007/s12028-010-9456-9.
• Background Cartin-Ceba R, Warner DO, Hays JT, Afessa B. Nicotine replacement therapy in critically ill patients: a prospective observational cohort study. Crit Care Med. 2011 Jul;39(7):1635-40. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31821867b8.
• Background Horan TC, Andrus M, Dudeck MA. CDC/NHSN surveillance definition of health care-associated infection and criteria for specific types of infections in the acute care setting. Am J Infect Control. 2008 Jun;36(5):309-32. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2008.03.002. No abstract available.
• Background Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Vital signs: central line-associated blood stream infections--United States, 2001, 2008, and 2009. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 Mar 4;60(8):243-8.
• Background Hsieh SJ, Ware LB, Eisner MD, Yu L, Jacob P 3rd, Havel C, Goniewicz ML, Matthay MA, Benowitz NL, Calfee CS. Biomarkers increase detection of active smoking and secondhand smoke exposure in critically ill patients. Crit Care Med. 2011 Jan;39(1):40-5. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181fa4196.
• de Jong B, Schuppers AS, Kruisdijk-Gerritsen A, Arbouw MEL, van den Oever HLA, van Zanten ARH. The safety and efficacy of nicotine replacement therapy in the intensive care unit: a randomised controlled pilot study. Ann Intensive Care. 2018 Jun 7;8(1):70. doi: 10.1186/s13613-018-0399-1.

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