NCT03790150

National Approach to Standardize and Improve Mechanical Ventilation

National Approach to Standardize and Improve Mechanical Ventilation Care for Critically Ill Patients in Saudi Arabia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 27,966 (actual)
• Sponsor: King Abdullah International Medical Research Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a pre-post implementation cohort study. This is a data driven quality improvement project which aims to improve the care of mechanically ventilated patients through the implementation of a bundle of evidence based practices, with a goal of reducing ventilator associated events and mortality.

Detailed description

NASAM is a national collaborative quality improvement project in Saudi Arabia which aims to: 1. Reduce the rate of ventilator-associated events 2. Improve the compliance with NASAM bundle elements 3. Reduce the mortality of mechanically ventilated patients The plan of this quality improvement project is to extend the implementation to a total of 100 ICUs in collaboration with multiple health systems across the country. A significant component of this project includes measuring the safety culture of ICUs.

Conditions

• Mechanical Ventilation Complication

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Evidence-based practices	Implementation of evidence-based practices

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-01
• Primary completion: 2020-03-31
• Completion: 2021-03-31
• First posted: 2018-12-31
• Last updated: 2023-03-14

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Saudi Arabia