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Filter by:The purpose of the this Pilot Trial is to determine the feasibility of conducting a large randomized controlled trial (RCT), that aims to examine the efficacy and safety of using pantoprazole compared to placebo for stress ulcer prophylaxis in critically ill mechanically ventilated patients in the ICU.
This study will be a retrospective electronic medical chart review of all patients admitted to adult intensive care medicine units (ICU) at The Nebraska Medical Center over a three-year period from January 2006 through December 2008. The study will have three primary aims: - Aim 1: Determine correlates (qualifying criteria) of patients initiated on enteral versus parenteral PPIs as first choice in ICU and after discharge from ICU, - Aim 2: Based on correlates determine number of patients receiving parenteral PPIs that could receive enteral therapy as first choice in ICU and after discharge from ICU, - Aim 3: Estimate the potential savings in drug costs associated with conversion of eligible patients from parenteral to enteral PPI therapy with emphasis on lansoprazole solutab in the ICU and conversion of eligible patients requiring continued AST from parenteral to enteral PPI therapy after discharge from ICU.
Objective of this study was to determine incidence, risk factors, etiological micro-organisms and their antimicrobial susceptibility pattern and outcome of VAP; and to study effect of ranitidine vs. sucralfate, used for stress ulcer prophylaxis, on gastric colonization and on occurrence of VAP. Methods: Design: Prospective randomized study. Setting: ICUs of Medicine Department and Anesthesiology Department, Maulana Azad Medical College and Lok Nayak Hospital, University of Delhi, New Delhi. Patients: 50 patients of age more than 12 years, who had been on ventilator for more than 48 hrs. Intervention: Endotracheal Aspirate and blood sample of all patients were cultured to determine micro-organisms causing VAP and their antimicrobial susceptibility pattern. Patients were divided into 2 groups on random basis. The first group was given ranitidine for stress ulcer prophylaxis while the second was given sucralfate. Thereafter, difference in gastric colonization (on basis of quantitative culture of nasogastric aspirate) and on occurrence of VAP in both the groups was compared. Study Hypothesis: Study was designed to create data about Ventilator associated pneumonia in developing countries like India. This data is crucial for providing information for deciding future guidelines for treatment of and prevention of Ventilator associated pneumonia. Further to test the hypothesis that H2 blockers, by virtue of raising gastric Ph, increase gastric colonization by pathogenic organism and increase incidence of Ventilator associated pneumonia; patients were divided into two groups on random basis, as described above.