Prevalence of Atelectasis in Critical Trauma Patients

Khon Kaen University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pulmonary Atelectasis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02739854

VHI-prevalence-atelectasis

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to identify the prevalence rate and risk factors for pulmonary complications in patients with critical trauma who intubated and mechanical ventilation.

Enrollment: 338 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• An inclusion criterion is the traumatic patients (e.g. head injury, blunt chest, blunt abdomen, and fracture of spine; with or without operative, pure or multitrauma) with intubation and mechanical ventilation who admit at this time period will recruit to the study.

Exclusion criteria

• a patients who admit less than 1 day will be excluded such as sudden death or moving to other ward because of improving conditions, etc.