Endocan in Ventilator-associated Pneumonia

Erzincan University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Serial Endocan Measurements

Treatments: Biological: endocan

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02916277

ERZINCAN UNIVERSITY 3

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this study; in patients undergoing mechanical ventilation, making the day series Endocan measurements during the first 5 day to look at whether there is a relationship between the levels of VAP with Endocan. This relationship, if any, aimed to investigate whether correlated with clinical and laboratory findings [presence of fever, pathological lung X-ray, the number of white blood cells (WBC), procalcitonin (PCT), C-reactive protein (CRP)] .

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• over 18 age
• Patients whether intubated and connected to a mechanical ventilator

Exclusion criteria

• patients intubated due to lung problems such as COPD, asthma, pulmonary embolism , etc.
• Patients with brain tumors
• patients with acute and chronic renal failure
• Patients with hypertension
• Patients with previously diagnosed infection
• Patients with extubated
• patients using antibiotics or corticosteroids before bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples taken