Evaluation of a Closed Suction System to Remove Secretions From the Endotracheal Tube

Azienda Ospedaliera San Gerardo di Monza

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Intubation; Expected Duration of Ventilation > 48h

Treatments: Device: standard closed suctioning systems; Device: Airway medix closed suction system

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01912105

180-20130326

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cleaning the endotracheal tube with a specifically designed device results in lower amount of secretions at extubation, assessed by micro CT scan

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients admitted to an ICU
• 18 years old or more
• expected to be intubated for more than 48 hours
• less than 24 hours from intubation
• fraction of inspired oxygen set at the ventilator <80%

Exclusion criteria

• Current or past participation in another intervention trial conflicting with the present study
• expected survival less than 24 hours
• Acute severe asthma
• Use of Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) or candidates for ECMO
• Double lumen endotracheal tube in place
• Conditions which pose the patient at high risk if inadvertent endotracheal tube displacement occurs (laryngeal edema, cervical spine trauma, upper airways diseases with difficult reintubation)
• other contraindications posed by staff physicians

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

treatment

Experimental group

Description:

Airway Medix Closed Suction System

Treatment:

Device: Airway medix closed suction system

control

Active Comparator group

Description:

standard closed suctioning systems

Treatment:

Device: standard closed suctioning systems