NCT01134133

Can Hospital Acquired Pneumonia be Prevented in Patients Who Gurgle?

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: Phase 1 / Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Bridgeport Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Hospital inpatients who have gurgling sounds heard during speech or breathing have been observed to have a higher risk of hospital acquired pneumonia. Patients who gurgle and who consent to participation will be randomized to receive routine clinical management or management to include measures employed to reduce risks of aspiration, namely, 1. head of bed up (30 degrees or higher), 2. swallowing evaluation by speech therapist (and feeding predicated on formal evaluation), 3. prompting managing physicians to reduce sedating medications to minimal effective dose.

Conditions

• Hospital Acquired Pneumonia in Gurgling Patients

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Anti-gurgling intervention	1\. head of bed 30 degrees or higher, 2. swallowing evaluation-based feeding, 3. sedatives titrated to minimal effective dose.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-02-01
• Primary completion: 2010-07-01
• Completion: 2010-07-01
• First posted: 2010-05-31
• Last updated: 2011-06-23