The influence of professional oral hygiene care on reducing ventilator-associated pneumonia in trauma intensive care unit patients
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Not Applicable
- Registration Number
- KCT0005275
- Lead Sponsor
- Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 100
Inclusion Criteria
The inclusion criteria were the following: mechanically ventilated adult patient, aged 20 years and above, admitted to the trauma ICU, and patients whom the attending physician found to be capable of receiving oral management.
Exclusion Criteria
when patients or their legal representatives declined to participate in the study, when patients were not well enough to receive oral management, when patients could not receive oral management owing to severe maxillofacial injury, and when patients could not receive oral management for other reasons. Finally, we excluded patients who were diagnosed with pneumonia or were pregnant at the time of admission
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional Study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Incidence rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method oral health status;CPIS(Clinical Pulmonary Infection Score);Plaque sample collection and bacterial culture