Differences in Morbidity Between a Necessity Endotracheal Suctioning Protocol Versus a Routine Endotracheal Suctioning

Hospital Pablo Tobón Uribe

Status: Completed

Conditions: Ventilator Associated Pneumonia; Arrhythmias; Cardiac Arrest; Hypoxemia

Treatments: Procedure: Routine endotracheal suctioning; Procedure: Necessity endotracheal suctioning

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01069185

5100-66779

Details and patient eligibility

About

Morbidity frequency associated to a endotracheal suctioning is different between a necessity endotracheal suctioning protocol versus a routine endotracheal protocol.

Full description

Endotracheal aspiration is a very useful procedure. It has several adverse events every time that aspiration is practiced. This trials wants to identify which protocol (necessity versus routine) could be better to practice in pediatrics intensive care unit with less risk.

Enrollment: 92 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 month to 14 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children older than 1 month until 14 years old requiring orotracheal intubation

Exclusion criteria

• High frequency ventilation mode

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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92 participants in 2 patient groups

Necessity endotracheal suctioning

Experimental group

Description:

Endotracheal suctioning depends on clinical manifestations

Treatment:

Procedure: Necessity endotracheal suctioning

Routine endotracheal suctioning

Other group

Description:

Endotracheal suctioning every two hours

Treatment:

Procedure: Routine endotracheal suctioning