Intrahospital transport of unstable critically sick patients
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: Y69- Unspecified misadventure during surgical and medical care
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2022/10/046354
- Lead Sponsor
- ISCCM
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 1000
All adult patients ( > 18years old) admitted to ICU who are unstable conditions as below-
1.Unstable included requiring oxygen therapy, mechanical ventilation or vasoactive medications.
2.patients with poly trauma ( not on ventilator/ vasopressors) with chest drains, EVDs(External ventricular drains) , patients with C spine injury with collar.
3.post operative patients with abdominal drains.
4.low GCS(Glasgow coma scale) / combative patients
5.patients with arrhythmias on medication infusions.
1.All adult patients ( < 18years )old admitted to ICU.
2.ICU patients who are not on vasopressors or oxygen therapy with no drains and hemodynamically stable with NSR (Normal sinus rhythm)
3.Those who are not willing to give consent
4.Pregnant patients
5.Patient with psychiatric illness
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1.Incidence of major cardiorespiratory complications during and after transport of critically ill adults, <br/ ><br>Accidental extubation, accidental removal of Inter costal drains, abdominal drains <br/ ><br>Increase in hemorrhage <br/ ><br>Worsening of GCS as compared to pre-transport condition <br/ ><br>Timepoint: clinical condition @ 24 hr
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Common indications for transport <br/ ><br>Any other complications not included in the primary outcomes <br/ ><br>Malfunction of any of the transport equipment <br/ ><br>Whether a change in management occurred as a result of the transport, particularly for imaging, such as insertion of new drainage catheters or pigtail catheters, surgery or change of antimicrobial agents <br/ ><br>Timepoint: ICU outcome/discharge