NCT00319644

Impact of Using Mini-Bronchoalveolar Lavage as a Diagnostic Test for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 37 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The proposed study will evaluate adult patients admitted to the medical or surgical intensive care units (ICUs) at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). On admission, patients will be randomized in a 1:1 manner to the mini-bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) quantitative culture arm in the setting of suspected ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) versus the tracheal aspirate culture arm, which is the current test available at SFGH.

Detailed description

Patients will be randomized to either Mini-Bal or tracheal aspirate then samples will be taken to the lab for culture. Comparative analysis will then be performed based upon lab results.

Conditions

• Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Bronchoalveolar lavage	Using catheter to obtain respiratory sample

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-05-01
• Primary completion: 2008-12-01
• Completion: 2008-12-01
• First posted: 2006-04-27
• Last updated: 2012-11-16
• Results posted: 2012-11-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States