NCT00932776

Tracheobronchial Secretion Removal

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: —
• Sponsor: University of Milano Bicocca · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

Patients undergoing intubation and mechanical ventilation require removal of secretion by means of trachoebronchial suctioning. Timing of the procedure is mainly based on clinical parameters. TBA Care® is a new commercially available device designed to generate a signal when secretions are present in the respiratory tract of intubated patients, thus indicating the need for endotracheal suctioning only when necessary and prior to clinical deterioration. In a prospective randomized trial in intubated and mechanically ventilated patients of a general ICU the researchers investigated the efficacy of TBA Care® in detecting the presence of retained secretions compared to the standard indicators.

Conditions

• Respiration, Artificial
• Respiratory Insufficiency

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	TBA care device	Tracheal suction maneuvers are performed according to the indications provided by the TBA care device or to clinical parameters whichever occurs first.
DEVICE	Control	In this group suction maneuvers are performed according to clinical indications or on a fixed schedule whichever comes first.

Timeline

• First posted: 2009-07-03
• Last updated: 2009-07-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy