Effective Implementation of Ventilator Care Bundles in Improves Outcomes: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the effect of 17-ventilator care bundles and different training strategies for critical care nurses on clinical outcomes.

Design

A randomized controlled triple-blinded clinical trial.

Setting

The multicenter study was conducted in four academic teaching hospitals in Tehran, Iran, from October 2011 to June 2015.

Patients

A total of 1,600 adult patients (age ≥ 18 yr) who were admitted to mixed medical-surgical ICUs (> 72 hr) and received invasive ventilation (> 48 hr) were included in this study. In addition, 160 critical care nurses were recruited through letters and telephone and face-to-face invitations.

Interventions

Seventeen-ventilator care bundles applied by four different groups of nurses.

Measurements and main results

SUBMITTER: Rahimi-Bashar F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8452377 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature