Evaluation of Comfort in a Spinal Collar

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Status

Completed

Conditions

Neck Injuries

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04066686

18SM4650

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is an observational study which aims to assess the comfort of a spinal collar in patients who have them fitted as part of their clinical care due to neck injury.

Full description

The study follows the patient journey including long term follow up (up to 120 days following admission). The information gathered will be from the standard clinical care delivered and include demographics, baseline function, the injuries sustained following trauma and prescribed analgesia with records of the most recent time and dose administered. Any scans done of the neck for clinical purposes will be anonymised and analysed for measurements of angulation. In addition to this there will be a survey on the comfort of the collar and of their functional ability at the current time at various points during their inpatient admission.

Enrollment

27 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

All patients aged 18yrs and over with a C-spine injury immobilised in a spinal collar
Patients must be nursed on Major Trauma Ward
Ability to give informed consent to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

Patients under 18yrs age
Patients who lack capacity to consent for entry into the study
Patients who are receiving level 2( High dependency unit) or level 3 (Intensive care unit) clinical care
Patients who are unable to complete the visual analogue score or questionnaire due to having co-existent severe hearing and visual impairment. Severe hearing impairment will be defined as unable to hear the researcher with hearing aids if required. Severe visual impairment will be defined as being unable to read the patient information sheet even with visual aids.
Patients unable to understand the patient leaflet in English.