NCT01477099

Toothbrushing and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia

Efficacy of Toothbrushing for the Prevention of Ventilator-associated Pneumonia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 436 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital Universitario de Canarias · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The hypothesis is that adding the toothbrushing to the oral care with clorhexidine 0.12% could be reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia due to that oral cavity may be an important reservoir of pathogens that could cause pneumonia.

Conditions

• Ventilator Associated Pneumonia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Toothbrushing with a manual brush	Toothbrushing with a manual brush

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-08-01
• Primary completion: 2011-08-01
• Completion: 2011-08-01
• First posted: 2011-11-22
• Last updated: 2011-11-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain