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The effect of a designed care plan on incidence of aspiration and ventilator associated pneumonia in intubated patients

Phase 2
Conditions
Aspiration pneumonia (due to): NOS food (regurgitated) gastric secretions milk vomit
Aspiration pneumonia.
Registration Number
IRCT2016072729100N1
Lead Sponsor
Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Vice chancellor for research
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Complete
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
70
Inclusion Criteria

The inclusion criteria of the study were: being 16–65 years of age? the second day of intubation? the MCPIS score more than 5 or equal? the patient dosnt have pneumonia, ARDA, COPD? using only standard formulas for feeding? monitoring with mechanical ventilation for at least 96 h.
The patients with tracheostomy? abdominal wound? surgery? pregnancy and radiotherapy? ileus? diarrhea? and those using prokinetic agents? remove the NGT? changing the endothracheal tube were excluded from the study.

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Ventilator associated pneumonia. Timepoint: Before intervention and at the end of intervention. Method of measurement: In this study, pneumonia means the MCPIS score more than 5. The highest score is 10. If patients earn more than 5 point, the diagnosis of VAP is pretended.;Aspirations. Timepoint: At the intervention days, before morning and evening massage. Method of measurement: In this study, the means of aspiration is the number of oral discharge PH that measures by test tapes. It measures each day before massage. The score less than 6 represents the aspiration.;Gastric residual volume. Timepoint: in intervention days, at morning and evening, before gavage. Method of measurement: it means the volume of gastric content that measure by syring before each gavage.
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
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