Evidence · Randomised trial
As-needed endotracheal suctioning protocol vs a routine endotracheal suctioning in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A randomized controlled trial.
- Airway
- Arrhythmias
- Cardiovascular
- Chest physiotherapy
- Infection prevention
- Mechanical ventilation
- Medical
- Nursing
- Physiotherapy
- Respiratory
This paper is from 2018, more than five years ago. Newer evidence may have been published since.
Summary
A pragmatic randomised controlled trial in a Colombian PICU comparing as-needed with routine endotracheal suctioning in 90 ventilated children. The composite primary outcome comprised hypoxaemia, arrhythmias, accidental extubation and cardiac arrest, with secondary outcomes of ventilation days, PICU stay, ventilator-associated pneumonia and mortality. No differences were found between the two suctioning protocols. Relevant to nursing and physiotherapy airway care practice in ventilated PICU patients.
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