Wheat Beer for Prevention of Delirium in Intensive Care Patients
ConditionICU Delirium
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorUniversity Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
About this trial
The investigators hypothesise that the daily administration of 0.5L alcohol-containing wheat beer at 8 pm over a study period of 6 days in a row leads to a lower prevalence of delirium compared to water following the same administration scheme.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Risk of delirium: ICU patients with expected length of stay (LOS) ≥ 24 hours
Naso-gastric tube in situ
ICU stay ≤ 72h until first study intervention
Women: negative pregnancy test, age ≥50 years or status post hysterectomy/bilateral ovariectomy
Disqualifiers
Pre-existing liver pathologies
Patients after bone marrow transplantation
Women: breastfeeding
Pre-existing delirium (ICDSC ≥ 4)
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Beer
- Water
Treatment groups
380 Participants
are divided into 3 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
Source ClinicalTrials.gov