Hypnosis may ease ventilator weaning in ICU
NCT ID NCT07518498
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether a short hypnosis session can help patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) wean off a breathing machine. Researchers will try hypnosis on 30 adults who have been on a ventilator for at least 48 hours and are ready to start breathing on their own. The goal is to see if hypnosis is feasible and whether it reduces pain and anxiety during the process.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- hypnosis session
- What this could lead to
- If it works, hypnosis could become a drug-free way to help ICU patients breathe on their own sooner, reducing side effects from sedatives.
- What could go wrong
- This is a very small feasibility study (30 people) that only checks if hypnosis is possible during weaning, not whether it actually works. Results may not apply to all ICU patients.
This is an AI summary of the original study and may miss details. Read our disclaimer.
Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
-
Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
-
About 30 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
-
Jul 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
-
Jul 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
-
Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
-
18 years and older
- Sex
-
Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
-
Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
Show the full entry requirements Hide the full entry requirements
Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients aged 18 and older * Patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit and requiring invasive mechanical ventilation for at least 48 hours * Presence of the prerequisite criteria for ventilator weaning: effective cough, minimal bronchial congestion, patient awake and not agitated, hemodynamic stability (heart rate less than 140 beats per minute, systolic blood pressure between 90 and 160 mmHg without vasopressors), pressure support ventilation, FiO2 \< 40% and PEEP ≤ 8 cmH2O, PaO2/FiO2 \> 150, pH \> 7.35, respiratory rate \< 35 per minute * Patients enrolled in a social security program or eligible for such a program * Patients who has received complete information about the clinical research protocol and has signed an informed consent form * Patients who has undergone a preliminary clinical examination appropriate for the clinical research Exclusion Criteria: * Contraindication to hypnosis (particularly severe psychotic disorders) * Non-French-speaking individuals * Deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals * State of agitation or acute delirium * Individuals who have already undergone a spontaneous ventilation test or an attempt at orotracheal extubation during their hospitalization * Individuals receiving a new anxiolytic or sedative treatment within 2 hours prior to the weaning test * Individuals with a tracheostomy * Women of childbearing age who do not have access to effective contraception * Individuals covered by Articles L. 1121-5, L. 1121-7, and L. 1121-8 of the Public Health Code (pregnant women, women in labor, or breastfeeding women, minors not emancipated, adult subject to a legal protection measure, adult unable to give consent) * Person deprived of liberty by a judicial or administrative decision, or a person receiving psychiatric care pursuant to Articles L. 3212-1 and L. 3213-1
Get updates
Get notified about this study
Sign up to get updates when this study changes or when new studies for Hypnosis are added.
Genom att skicka in godkänner du våra Användarvillkor
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
How to take part
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
-
The places running it
1 site. The list below names each one and where it is.
-
The official record
ClinicalTrials.gov lists the study team's own contact details, including names and phone numbers. We don't republish those.
-
A doctor treating you
A doctor who knows your case can contact a study site on your behalf, and can tell you whether this study is worth pursuing at all.
Contacts and locations
Locations
-
Central Hospital
Nancy, 54000, France
More trials for these conditions
Other studies related to the condition(s) this trial covers.
- Two quick breathing tests could spare ICU patients from failed ventilator removal
- Can ultrasound guide safer Breathing-Tube removal?
- Can a smarter ventilator setting help kids breathe easier after heart surgery?
- Hypnosis tested as a chill pill for face surgery
- Hypnosis breakthrough? scientists test if body stiffness deepens trance
- New index could help ventilator patients get off breathing machines sooner