?Assessing the effect of an oral hygiene protocol on ventilator associated pneumonia among the intubated patients hospitalized in Intensive care units

Not Applicable

Conditions: Ventilator associated pneumonia.
Ventilator associated pneumonia
J95.851

Registration Number: IRCT20220215054026N1

Lead Sponsor: Sanandaj University of Medical Sciences

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Complete

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

Age >=18 years
Patient with no oral trauma
Patient with no fracture in the face
The patient must be intubated within the first 24 hours of admission.
The patient has not been admitted to any other hospital department in the last 48 hours.
Patients who are intubated for at least 1 week and at most 3 months.
Written informed consent of the patient's guardian or companion (father, brother, grandfather) to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria

Observing any injuries in the oral during the study
Observinng any facial fracture during the study
Patients who can remove the tracheal tube in less than 48 hours.
Critically ill patients with life expectancy less than 48 hours

Study & Design

Study Type: interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The occurence of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Timepoint: After 48 hours of intubation and doing intervention, each patient will be evaluated daily for the occurrence of ventilator-associated pneumonia. Method of measurement: Clinical criteria, the clinical pulmonary infection score (CPIS), that described initially by Johanson et al. And suggested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will be used to assess the VAP. This tool consists of clinical, microbiological, physiological and radiographic evidence and allow us a numerical value to predict the presence/absence of VAP .

Secondary Outcome Measures