Oral Care to Prevent Ventilator-associated Pneumonia

N/ACompletedNCT05161962

Ataturk University57 enrolled

Overview

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.

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 Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Oral Hygiene, Oral Health Ventilators, Mechanical

Interventions

One group received standard oral care.COMBINATION_PRODUCT

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

It was applied to the other group by aspiration.COMBINATION_PRODUCT

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

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 90 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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 \-

Locations (1)

Atatürk University

Erzurum, Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

oral care application with standard oral care stick

Administered with chlorhexidine gluconate solution.

Time frame: 1 in 6 hours

Oral care application with a sucking oral care stick

Administered with chlorhexidine gluconate solution.

Time frame: 1 in 6 hours

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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