Effect of process of securing airway in head injury patients due to trauma on the occurence of Ventilator associated lung infectio
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- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: J17- Pneumonia in diseases classified elsewhere
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2021/01/030581
- Lead Sponsor
- PGIMER
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
All patients more than or equal to eighteen years of age admitted with severe TBI (GCS eight or less)
Patients with device used to support assist or control respiration by the application of positive pressure to the airway delivered through an artificial airway (oral or nasal endotracheal or tracheostomy tube)
Duration of mechanical ventilation in Trauma ICU more than or equal to forty eight hours
Exclusion Criteria
Patients who expire in less than forty eight hours of mechanical ventilation
Patients who refuse consent
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To co-relate characteristics of prior airway management (pre-hospital and in-hospital at triage/operation theatre/ward) with development of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (for the time the patient is admitted in ICU) in patients with severe Traumatic Brain Injury receiving critical careTimepoint: Daily, till discharge of patient from IC
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1.Days of mechanical ventilation <br/ ><br>2.ICU length of stay <br/ ><br>3.ICU mortality <br/ ><br>4.Hospital length of stay <br/ ><br>5.Ventilator free days (VFD)Timepoint: Daily till discharge of patient from ICU <br/ ><br>Till discharge from hospital