Melatonin Use in the Intensive Care Elderly Population

Summary

The investigators are studying the use of Melatonin in non-ventilated patients over the age of 65. Primary endpoint will be assesments of delirium, with secondary endpoints to include length of stay, use of anti-psychotic medications, and mortality

Timeline

Start

2016-12

Primary completion

2018-01

Completion

2018-01

Publications

• Background Pisani MA, Kong SY, Kasl SV, Murphy TE, Araujo KL, Van Ness PH. Days of delirium are associated with 1-year mortality in an older intensive care unit population. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2009 Dec 1;180(11):1092-7. doi: 10.1164/rccm.200904-0537OC. Epub 2009 Sep 10.
• Background Huang HW, Zheng BL, Jiang L, Lin ZT, Zhang GB, Shen L, Xi XM. Effect of oral melatonin and wearing earplugs and eye masks on nocturnal sleep in healthy subjects in a simulated intensive care unit environment: which might be a more promising strategy for ICU sleep deprivation? Crit Care. 2015 Mar 19;19(1):124. doi: 10.1186/s13054-015-0842-8.
• Background Chen S, Shi L, Liang F, Xu L, Desislava D, Wu Q, Zhang J. Exogenous Melatonin for Delirium Prevention: a Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Mol Neurobiol. 2016 Aug;53(6):4046-4053. doi: 10.1007/s12035-015-9350-8. Epub 2015 Jul 21.
• Background Bourne RS, Mills GH. Melatonin: possible implications for the postoperative and critically ill patient. Intensive Care Med. 2006 Mar;32(3):371-9. doi: 10.1007/s00134-005-0061-x. Epub 2006 Feb 14.
• Background Arendt J. In what circumstances is melatonin a useful sleep therapy? Consensus statement, WFSRS focus group, Dresden, November 1999. J Sleep Res. 2000 Dec;9(4):397-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2000.00229.x. No abstract available.
• Background Artemiou P, Bily B, Bilecova-Rabajdova M, Sabol F, Torok P, Kolarcik P, Kolesar A. Melatonin treatment in the prevention of postoperative delirium in cardiac surgery patients. Kardiochir Torakochirurgia Pol. 2015 Jun;12(2):126-33. doi: 10.5114/kitp.2015.52853. Epub 2015 Jun 30.
• Background Bellapart J, Boots R. Potential use of melatonin in sleep and delirium in the critically ill. Br J Anaesth. 2012 Apr;108(4):572-80. doi: 10.1093/bja/aes035.
• Background Bourne RS, Mills GH, Minelli C. Melatonin therapy to improve nocturnal sleep in critically ill patients: encouraging results from a small randomised controlled trial. Crit Care. 2008;12(2):R52. doi: 10.1186/cc6871. Epub 2008 Apr 18.
• Background Chakraborti D, Tampi DJ, Tampi RR. Melatonin and melatonin agonist for delirium in the elderly patients. Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen. 2015 Mar;30(2):119-29. doi: 10.1177/1533317514539379. Epub 2014 Jun 18.
• Background Hatta K, Kishi Y, Wada K, Takeuchi T, Odawara T, Usui C, Nakamura H; DELIRIA-J Group. Preventive effects of ramelteon on delirium: a randomized placebo-controlled trial. JAMA Psychiatry. 2014 Apr;71(4):397-403. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.3320.

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