RecruitingNot ApplicableNCT06923462

VoiceLove: An App-Based COMMunication Tool Designed to Address DeliriUm and Improve Family ENgagement and PatIent/Family SatisfaCtion in CriticAlly Ill PaTiEnts (COMMUNICATE)

Sponsor

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Enrollment

100 participants

Start Date

Aug 6, 2025

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Conditions

Intensive Care Medicine Critical Illness

Summary

VoiceLove is a phone application allowing family and patients to share information in a secure platform. This project will compare the VoiceLove app to usual care to learn about whether VoiceLove improves patient-family communication, family engagement, and ICU delirium.

Eligibility

Min Age: 18 Years

Inclusion Criteria3

Adult patient ≥18 years old
Admitted to medical or coronary ICU
Intubated on mechanical ventilation with expected intubation of > 24 hours

Exclusion Criteria11

Patients will be excluded (i.e., not consented) for any of the following reasons:
Inability to obtain informed consent
Attending physician refusal
Patient and/or surrogate refusal
Patient unable to consent and no surrogate available
Acute or chronic neurologic deficit precluding CAM-ICU assessments
Inability to understand English
Current enrollment in a study that does not allow co-enrollment
Prisoners
Expected death or comfort measures within 24 hours of enrollment or lack of commitment to intervention by family or the medical team (e.g., likely to withdraw life support measures within 24 hours of enrollment).
Bilateral Deafness