NCT01150864

Effects of Airway Conditioning Devices on Ventilator Associated Pneumonia:a Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 190 (actual)
• Sponsor: Università degli Studi dell'Insubria · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The main hypothesis are: 1. Passive and Active-Passive airway conditioning devices reduce the incidence of ventilator associated pneumonia 2. Active-Passive airway conditioning devices reduce the incidence of endotracheal tube obstruction 3. Nurses' workload is reduced with Passive and Active-Passive airway conditioning devices

Detailed description

For all Three lines of the study we record Clinical Pulmonary Infection score and Airways Care Score, SOFA (Sequential Organ Failure Assessment), sedation strategy, Glasgow Coma Score and clinical data.

Conditions

• Acute Lung Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Airway Conditioning	Each Passive device will be changed daily. When using Active and Passive devices as well as Active-Passive devices the ventilatory circuit will be changed every 7 days.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-04-01
• Primary completion: 2015-03-01
• Completion: 2017-03-01
• First posted: 2010-06-25
• Last updated: 2017-05-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy