Endotracheal Tube Cuff Pressure Measurement

Bagcilar Training and Research Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Ventilator Associated Pneumonia; Morality; Endotracheal Aspiration; Trauma, Brain

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04397952

2017.11.1.02.008.r1.010

Details and patient eligibility

About

The effect of endotracheal cuff pressure measurement technique for preventing ventilatory associated pneumonia.

Full description

Aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of endotracheal cuff pressure measurement technique for preventing ventilatory associated pneumonia of severe traumatic brain injured patients in a tertiary level intensive care unit.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients with ASA classification of 1 - 2- 3 patients Patients required mechanical ventilation support for more than 48 hours Patients diagnosed with Traumatic brain injury

Exclusion criteria

Official patient relatives who rejected to give informed consent for the study Patients diagnosed with aspiration pneumonia during ICU follow up Patients diagnosed with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Patients diagnosed with cavitary lung lesion Primary lung cancer Metastatic lung cancer Congenitally immune deficiency Leukopenia Neutropenia Tracheostomized patients Post cardiopulmonary arrest patients Pregnancy