Oral Care to Prevent Ventilator-associated Pneumonia

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Oral Hygiene, Oral Health; Ventilators, Mechanical
• Interventions: Combination Product: One group received standard oral care.; Combination Product: It was applied to the other group by aspiration.

• Registration Number: NCT05161962
• Lead Sponsor: Ataturk University

Brief Summary

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of oral care given by two different methods on the development of ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients connected to mechanical ventilators.

Detailed Description

The universe of this research, which was designed as a semi-experimental study, is composed of patients connected to the mechanical ventilator lying in Atatürk University Training and Research Hospital Anesthesia and Reanimation Intensive Care Unit between September 2019 and February 2020. A total of 57 patients, 29 method-1, 28 method-2 groups, met the inclusion criteria of the study. In the data collection phase, 'Patient Identifier Information Form', 'Patient Monitoring Form', 'Oral Assessment Scale' and 'Tracheal Aspirate Culture Result Form' were used. In the evaluation of the data, number and percentage distributions, Kruskal Wallis, Mann Withney-U, Wilcoxon Analysis, Chi-Square test were used.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-09-01
• Primary Completion: 2020-01-23
• Study Completion: 2020-02-05
• Status Verified: 2021-12
• Study First Submitted: 2021-12-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-12-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-12-05
• Study First Posted: 2021-12-17
• Last Update Posted: 2021-12-17

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 57

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients on mechanical ventilator who have been in intensive care for at least 48 hours

• Male and female patients over the age of 18
• Patients without thrombocytopenia, leukopenia and oral stomatitis, aphthae, candiasis, gingivitis
• Patients whose respiratory support is provided by a mechanical ventilator
• Patients who are considered to be able to provide mechanical ventilator support for 7 days
• Patients without any respiratory-related infectious pathogens
• Obtaining informed consent from the patient if he/she can give consent or from his/her guardian if he/she is unable to give consent.
• It was determined as patients who did not undergo any intraoral surgical intervention.

Exclusion Criteria

patients with pneumonia Patients younger than 18 years

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
One group received standard oral care.	One group received standard oral care.	-
It was applied to the other group by aspiration.	One group received standard oral care.	-
It was applied to the other group by aspiration.	It was applied to the other group by aspiration.	-
One group received standard oral care.	It was applied to the other group by aspiration.	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
oral care application with standard oral care stick	1 in 6 hours	Administered with chlorhexidine gluconate solution.
Oral care application with a sucking oral care stick	1 in 6 hours	Administered with chlorhexidine gluconate solution.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Atatürk University; 🇹🇷 Erzurum, Turkey