Prevention of Pressure Ulcer by Lateral Tilt Bed in Neurocritical Care (PULAT-NC)

Regional Hospital Liberec

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Pressure Ulcer

Treatments: Other: Body positioning

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04078477

RHL-NICU-2019-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patient positioning is an essential part of a preventive strategy for neurocritical care patients.

The aim of the study will be to determine whether the positioning of the bed is the same or better compared to the positioning of the patient's bed in the presence of pressure ulcer.

Full description

In the monocentric, intervention, prospective, randomized study, we will investigate incidence of pressure ulcer in 300 adult consecutive patients admitted to our Neurointensive Care Unit (NICU). All patients will suffer from acute primary brain disease and will be unconscious with artificial pulmonary ventilation.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Primary brain disease
• Hospitalization in JIP neurocenter
• Age> 18 years
• Unconsciousness
• Artificial pulmonary ventilation

Exclusion criteria

• Intracranial hypertension
• Decubitus on the skin upon admission

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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300 participants in 2 patient groups

Lateral tilt bed

Experimental group

Description:

Special lateral tilt bed.

Treatment:

Other: Body positioning

Body positioning

No Intervention group

Description:

Standard NICU preventive strategy