Saline Instillation Before Tracheal Suctioning and the Incidence of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia

Hospital do Cancer, Sao Paulo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Critically Ill Patients; Mechanical Ventilation

Treatments: Procedure: Saline Instillation before Tracheal Suctioning

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00432718

342/01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Compare the incidence of ventilator associated pneumonia with or without tracheal isotonic saline instillation before tracheal suctioning

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Consecutive patients foreseen to receive mechanical ventilation for more than 72 hours

Exclusion criteria

• Previous mechanical ventilation in the last month
• Mechanical ventilation for more than 6 hours before arrival at ICU,
• Contraindication to bronchoscopy and
• Be expected to die or undergo withdrawal treatment within 48 hours-

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Single Blind