Observational Study of the Incidence of Pressure Ulcers on the Help Support of Prevention of Bedsores POLYAIR®

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pressure Ulcer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02901470

Local/2015/EV-02

Details and patient eligibility

About

The support of help to the prevention of sores include a big diversity of devices. The clinical experiment of these support comes up against the problem of the large number of factors participants in the genesis of bedsores. Nevertheless, it seems to be interesting to estimate the incidence of bedsores in these supports, with control of other factors

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 98 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Norton Index <9,
• No sores in ischiatic zone,
• Sitting position not less than 2 hours per day

Exclusion criteria

• Sores in ischiatic zone,
• Sitting position >2 hours per day