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Oral Care Protocol for Preventing Ventilator- Associated Pneumonia

NCT00604916 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: EARLY_PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 53

Last updated 2008-01-30

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The Nosocomial Pneumonia remains to be a major complication for patients who were incubated with ventilation. Most cases are attributed to increased bacteria flora in oropharyngeal secretion and aspiration of those organisms. Research indicates that the Gram-Negative Bacteria grows in upper air way and trachea rapidly during the initial 2-4 hospital days and the dental plague also increased dramatically at the first 5 days. About 50% cases with prolonged intubation experienced temporal swallowing disorders and majority of them recovered 7 days post weaning. Some evidence exist suggesting that oral care could reduce bacterial flora, prevent aspiration, and subsequently decrease the incidence of ventilation-associated pneumonia for this group of high risk patients.

This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a standardized oral care protocol in improving oral hygiene and reducing the incidence of pneumonia on a sample of surgical patients at intensive care unit.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

standardized oral care protocol - electronic toothbrush

a standardized 20-minute oral care protocol using an electronic toothbrush to clean and moisturize oral cavity twice daily.

OTHER

mimic protocol

a mimic 20-minute protocol involving moisturizing and attention control was performed for the same intervals.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Taiwan University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Mackay Memorial Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • li-yin YAO, BSN · School of Nursing, National Taiwan University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-03-31
Primary Completion
2007-11-30
Completion
2008-01-31

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