Effect of Bronchoscopy on the Outcome of Patients With Severe Sepsis With ARDS and Complicated by VAP From Prolonged Ventilation

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2021-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

to evaluate the effect of use of bronchoscopy in the course of sepsis, weaning from the ventilator, duration of ICU stays and mortality rate in septic patients with ARDS due to VAP.

• Phase: Phase 1/Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: King Abdul Aziz Specialist Hospital
• Treatments: Meropenem

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients with age group between 18-65 years,patients Respiratory failure, patients with pneumonia - ventilated for more than 10 days - showed no satisfactory improvement on intravenous antibiotics

Exclusion Criteria:

• pediatric patients, patients with anoxic brain insult

• permenant neurological deficit- post cardiac arrest