• Critical care medicine · Jul 2018

    Meta Analysis

    Ventilator Bundle and Its Effects on Mortality Among ICU Patients: A Meta-Analysis.

    • Claudia Pileggi, Valentina Mascaro, Aida Bianco, Nobile Carmelo G A CGA Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Cosenza, Italy. , and Maria Pavia.
    • Department of Health Sciences, University of Catanzaro "Magna Gracia," Catanzaro, Italy.
    • Crit. Care Med. 2018 Jul 1; 46 (7): 1167-1174.

    ObjectivesTo assess the effectiveness of the ventilator bundle in the reduction of mortality in ICU patients.Data SourcesPubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Cochrane Library for studies published until June 2017.Study SelectionIncluded studies: randomized controlled trials or any kind of nonrandomized intervention studies, made reference to a ventilator bundle approach, assessed mortality in ICU-ventilated adult patients.Data ExtractionItems extracted: study characteristics, description of the bundle approach, number of patients in the comparison groups, hospital/ICU mortality, ventilator-associated pneumonia-related mortality, assessment of compliance to ventilator bundle and its score.Data SynthesisThirteen articles were included. The implementation of a ventilator bundle significantly reduced mortality (odds ratio, 0.90; 95% CI, 0.84-0.97), with a stronger effect with a restriction to studies that reported mortality in ventilator-associated pneumonia patients (odds ratio, 0.71; 95% CI, 0.52-0.97), to studies that provided active educational activities was analyzed (odds ratio, 0.88; 95% CI, 0.78-0.99), and when the role of care procedures within the bundle (odds ratio, 0.87; 95% CI, 0.77-0.99). No survival benefit was associated with compliance to ventilator bundles. However, these results may have been confounded by the differential implementation of evidence-based procedures at baseline, which showed improved survival in the study subgroup that did not report implementation of these procedures at baseline (odds ratio, 0.82; 95% CI, 0.70-0.96).ConclusionsSimple interventions in common clinical practice applied in a coordinated way as a part of a bundle care are effective in reducing mortality in ventilated ICU patients. More prospective controlled studies are needed to define the effect of ventilator bundles on survival outcomes.

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