Status:

NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Evaluation of the Analgesic Effect of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) for Sedated Patients in Intensive Care Unit.

Lead Sponsor:

University Hospital, Grenoble

Conditions:

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-80 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Pain management for sedated ICU patients is complex, partly because of the difficulty of assessing pain in non-communicative patients, and partly because of the side effects associated with excessive ...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Age from 18 to 80 years,
  • Sedated patient requiring mechanical ventilation for at least 48 hours with administration of morphine.
  • Person affiliated to the social security system or beneficiary of an assimilated regime.
  • RASS ≤ -2
  • Close consent or emergency inclusion

Exclusion

  • History of epilepsy.
  • Severe brain injury (head trauma, stroke, neuromeningeal infection, status epilepticus).
  • Presence of intracranial ferromagnetic material.
  • Presence of electronic stimulators or implants (e.g. pacemaker, spinal cord or intracranial stimulator).
  • Facial trauma preventing eye opening.
  • Patients who are blind and/or have eye damage.
  • Protected persons: pregnant women, parturients, nursing mothers, persons deprived of their liberty by judicial or administrative decision, persons under legal protection.
  • Subjects excluded from another study.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

January 1 2026

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

December 1 2026

Estimated Enrollment :

40 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT06179199

Start Date

January 1 2026

End Date

December 1 2026

Last Update

December 12 2025

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Pain Management Center - Chuga

Grenoble, France

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