Prevention Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (REINA)

Maria Jesus Perez

Status: Completed

Conditions: Ventilator-associated Pneumonia

Treatments: Other: Bundle implementation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02060045

REINA

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of the investigators work was to evaluate the impact of 4 sequentially implemented measures for preventing VAP in a major heart surgery ICU. The measures were a specific training program, aspiration of subglottic secretions (ASS), introduction of an inclinometer to improve the semirecumbent position, and reinforcement of oral care with chlorhexidine.

Enrollment: 1,534 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all patients with heart surgery admitted in critical care unit during the study period

Exclusion criteria

• none

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,534 participants in 1 patient group

bundle implementation

Experimental group

Description:

The measures were a specific training program, aspiration of subglottic secretions (ASS), introduction of an inclinometer to improve the semirecumbent position, and reinforcement of oral care with chlorhexidine.

Treatment:

Other: Bundle implementation