NCT01266863

E Test Strips Applied to Bronchoalveolar Lavage for Suspicion of Hospital-acquired Pneumonia to Accelerate Antibiogram Analysis.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2 · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To rapidly adapt or deescalate the initially broad antibiotic treatment, an antibiogram analysis is required. E test strips have successfully provided an antibiogram 24 h after having been directly applied to bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL). An open-label, prospective cohort study of consecutive patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia will be conducted with the aim of validating a new method increasing the rapidity of antibiogram analysis compared to standard methods of culture. This antibiogram will be provided by E test strips directly applied to bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) samples and analyzed from the 6th up to the 24th hour after its completion. The occurrence of major errors (S with E test method, I or R with standard method) and minor errors (I or R with E test method and S with standard method)will be observed and a comparison of H6, H10 and H24 results performed.

Conditions

• Hospital-acquired Pneumonia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	E test method	E test strips directly applied to BAL

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-09-01
• Primary completion: 2013-11-01
• Completion: 2013-12-01
• First posted: 2010-12-24
• Last updated: 2015-06-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France