NCT03031860

Semi-quantitative Cough Strength Score (SCSS)

Impact of Semi-quantitative Cough Strength Score as a Strong Predictor for Extubation Outcome in Head Trauma Patients: a Prospective Descriptive Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Assiut University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Cough strength score will give true prediction of Extubation outcome

Detailed description

Head trauma patients were evaluated for readiness to be weaned off mechanical ventilation. If they had completed an Spontaneous Breathing Trial (SBT) before extubation. To measure Semiquantitative Cough Strength Score (SCSS), the investigator will put the patients at 30° to 45°, measure SCSS, first. The investigator enhance the patient to cough with as much effort as, when the investigator disconnect the ventilator. The cough strength was scored from 0 to 5 as follows: 0 = no cough on command, 1 = audible movement of air through the endotracheal tube but no audible cough, 2 = weakly (barely) audible cough, 3 = clearly audible cough, 4 = stronger cough and 5 = multiple sequential strong coughs.

Conditions

• Mechanical Ventilation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Semiquantitative Cough Strength Score	Evaluate extubation outcome according to degree of evaluated Semiquantitative Cough Strength Score

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-09-01
• Primary completion: 2017-12-01
• Completion: 2017-12-01
• First posted: 2017-01-26
• Last updated: 2018-01-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt