Description Module
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Description Module
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2025-12-24 @ 5:17 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 5:17 PM
NCT ID:
NCT01521650
Brief Summary:
Longer surgical procedures require intubation and there is a potential risk of contaminating the lower airways with pathogenic bacteria from the mouth and oropharynx.
Healthy people seldom have pathogenic bacteria originating from the gastro-intestinal canal but those do occur among patients, both in those not so sick and patients with more severe problems.
For ICU patients we have seen a reduction of emerging enteric bacteria in patients given oral care with probiotics and this is a pilot study to explore the possibility of the same kind of positive effects in patients due for longer (more than 4 hours of anesthesia) procedures.
Randomisation
* No prophylaxis
* Preparation with a probiotic suspension before intubation.
Cultures
* oropharynx
* before treatment
* after intubation
* before extubation
* day 1 postoperatively
* tracheal secretions
* after intubation
* before extubation
Study:
NCT01521650
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT01521650