Contribution of the Intensive Care Unit Environment to Sleep Disruption in Mechanically Ventilated Patients and Healthy Subjects

2003 ◽  
Vol 167 (5) ◽  
pp. 708-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Y. Gabor ◽  
Andrew B. Cooper ◽  
Shelley A. Crombach ◽  
Bert Lee ◽  
Nisha Kadikar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Healthy Subjects ◽  
Sleep Disruption ◽  
Mechanically Ventilated ◽  
Mechanically Ventilated Patients ◽  
Ventilated Patients

scholarly journals The ethical concerns of seeking consent from critically ill, mechanically ventilated patients for research – A matter of possessing capacity or surrogate insight

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 107-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avelino C Verceles ◽  
Waqas Bhatti
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
Critically Ill ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Mechanically Ventilated ◽  
Mechanically Ventilated Patients ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
Ventilated Patients

Conducting clinical research on subjects admitted to intensive care units is challenging, as they frequently lack the capacity to provide informed consent due to multiple factors including intensive care unit acquired delirium, coma, the need for sedation, or underlying critical illness. However, the presence of one or more of these characteristics does not automatically designate a potential subject as lacking capacity to provide their own informed consent. We review the ethical issues involved in obtaining informed consent for medical research from mechanically ventilated, critically ill patients, in addition to the concerns that may arise when a legally authorized representative is asked to provide informed consent on behalf of these patients.

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