Assesment of the Endotracheal Tube Cuff Pressure Values in ICU Pateints Before and After Training Seminar

Jagiellonian University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury; Respiratory Tract Infections

Treatments: Other: traning seminar

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03401463

1072.6120.194.2017

Details and patient eligibility

About

There is no accepted standard for the frequency of monitoring endotracheal tube cuff pressures (ETCP). the investigators plan on comparing two strategies for monitoring ETCP in mechanically ventilated patients.

Nowadays ETCP is evaluated once every 24 hours. Next, the investigator want to conduct training for medical and nursing staff. After the training, ETCP will be measured every 8 hours.

The aim of the study is to prove that more frequent pressure control (3 times a day) reduces the occurrence of abnormal ETCP.

Enrollment: 188 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Mechanically ventilated patients intubated in a medical intensive care unit

Exclusion criteria

• Patient requiring prone positioning, tracheo-esophageal fistula, lung transplant and neutropenic patients

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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188 participants in 2 patient groups

once a day

Active Comparator group

Description:

Cuff pressure checks once a day.

Treatment:

Other: traning seminar

three times a day

Active Comparator group

Description:

Cuff pressure checks three times a day

Treatment:

Other: traning seminar