Endotracheal Tube Cuff Pressures in Ventilated Patients

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Conditions studied: Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated

In brief

There is no accepted standard for the frequency of monitoring endotracheal tube cuff pressures (ETCP). Investigators plan on comparing two strategies for monitoring ETCP in mechanically ventilated patients. The two strategies will be the currently employed practice at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH) which requires ETCP to be assessed immediately after the endotracheal tube is placed and after any manipulation of the endotracheal tube to include repositioning, manipulation of the cuff volume, or presence of an audible leak. Investigator will compare this current practice to a more intensive monitoring of ETCP which is employed at some hospitals and includes the same elements as noted in the current practice plus monitoring ETCP every work shift (every 8 hours or three times per day).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02950519

Run by

Barnes-Jewish Hospital

People needed

305

Starts

2016-10-01

Expected to finish

2017-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-01-18

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Mechanically ventilated patients intubated in a medical intensive care unit

You may not qualify if…

• Patient requiring prone positioning, lung transplant and neutropenic patients

Where it is running

• Barnes-Jewish Hospital — St Louis, Missouri, United States

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