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Tests hypnosis to help patients tolerate breathing support in intensive care

Tests hypnosis with non-invasive ventilation in adults with COPD or obesity in intensive care.

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Registry title: Interest of Hypnosis When Setting up Non-invasive Ventilation in a Conscious Patient With COPD and/or Obesity With a BMI Greater Than 30, Suffering Fromacute Respiratory Distress in Adult Intensive Care

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Trial details

Who runs it
Rennes University Hospital
Trial code
NCT04220463
Record updated
24 June 2025
Original description
Discomfort during respiratory decompensation of a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and/or obesity with a BMI greater than 30, in intensive care and the establishment of non-invasive ventilation (NIV) is frequent and a source of failure. this therapy. Pharmacological treatments may be impossible due to the pathology, the risk of it worsening and adverse effects. In this context, hypnosis appears to be a tool that would promote comfort and thus increase tolerance of NIV.Read full original descriptionShow less

HYVIR : Interest of Hypnosis During the Implementation of Non-invasive Ventilation in a Patient With COPD and/or Obesity With a BMI Greater Than 30, Conscious With Acute Respiratory Distress in the Adult Intensive Care Unit

Discomfort during respiratory decompensation of a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and/or obesity with a BMI greater than 30, in intensive care and the establishment of non-invasive ventilation (NIV) is frequent and a source of failure. this therapy. Pharmacological treatments may be impossible due to the pathology, the risk of it worsening and adverse effects. In this context, hypnosis appears to be a tool that would promote comfort and thus increase tolerance of NIV.

Inclusion: Glasgow score = 15; Need during use of non-invasive ventilation.

Exclusion: Patient entering with an NIV in place already installed in another department. The subject becomes included again at the end of the treatment with NIV if however he needs it again; Patient already included in the study during previous non-invasive ventilation; Patient participating in research involving an interventional human person (category 1) on an analgesic / sedative medication; Decompensated psychiatric illness; A person of full age subject to legal protection (safeguard of justice, curators, guardianship) or deprived of liberty; Procedure to be carried out in extreme urgency (PaCO2 too high and leading to an immediate vital risk, and / or PaO2 too low) on medical decision; Confusional state making hypnosis impossible.

Pre-inclusion criteria; Man or woman, aged 18 or over, admitted to medical intensive care; Glasgow score = 15; Patient with acute respiratory failure decompensating COPD and/or having obesity with a body mass index (BMI) greater than 30; Patient having given free, informed and written consent; Patient affiliated to a health insurance system.

ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04220463