Clinical Trials

The purpose of this study is to assess the use of an audio recording containing positive suggestion as a means to provide needed psychological support to critically ill patients in a feasible and reliable manner.

The purposes of this study are to to determine the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social health outcomes and trajectory of recovery in a population of children post-critical illness, to determine the baseline health, presenting problem, and PICU factors associated with impaired physical, cognitive, emotional, and social outcomes among PICU survivors, and to determine the emotional and social health outcomes in parents and siblings of PICU survivors. Our primary goal is to explicate the impact of pediatric critical illness over a two-year period of time to guide future intervention research to optimize child and family outcomes. Our overall goal is to improve ...

Over a third of those who survive critical illness suffer from symptoms of anxiety, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after leaving the intensive care unit (ICU). This is twice as high as the rates of PTSD in combat veterans. The strongest risk factor is memories of frightening experiences and delusions (something that is very common during critical illness, when patients feel that something is real when it is actually not). Patients can hear speech even when sedated, yet there is no systematic communication with the critically ill while they receive life-saving medical treatments. We think that lack of real-time communication ...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether post-ICU assessment predicts PICS at 3 months and to validate a screening tool to identify patients at risk for PICS.  

The purpose of this trial is to compare the effectiveness of psychological support based on positive suggestions (PSBPS) vs. usual care on mental health morbidity and cognitive function in survivors of critical illness.