Toothbrushing and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia

Hospital Universitario de Canarias

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Ventilator Associated Pneumonia

Treatments: Device: Toothbrushing with a manual brush

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01477099

BRUSH-2009

Details and patient eligibility

About

The hypothesis is that adding the toothbrushing to the oral care with clorhexidine 0.12% could be reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia due to that oral cavity may be an important reservoir of pathogens that could cause pneumonia.

Enrollment: 436 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• mechanical ventilation

Exclusion criteria

• edentulous

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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436 participants in 2 patient groups

Toothbrushing with a manual brush

Experimental group

Description:

Toothbrushing with a manual brush

Treatment:

Device: Toothbrushing with a manual brush

No toothbrushing

No Intervention group

Description:

no toothbrushing