Clinical trials: Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcer
Ulcers, Bedsores
Utility of Interface Pressure Mapping
To determine if a device that measures and displays pressure that the patients feel when in bed can help nurses reposition the patient effectively and thereby reduce bedsores in the intensive care unit.
- Trial name
- NCT01439581
- Testing
- Mapping System, Non-Mapping System
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 428 people
- Sponsor
- Henry Ford Health System
Pressure Ulcer
Optimal Patient Turning for Reducing Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers
The purpose of this study is to test whether optimal patient turning, strictly every 2 hours with at least 15 minutes of tissue decompression, reduces the occurrence of hospital acquired pressure ulcers.
- Trial name
- LS-HAPU (NCT02533726)
- Testing
- Optimal Turning, Standard Care Practices, Patient Sensor
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,312 people
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Child, Intensive Care Unit Acquired Weakness
Clinical Effectiveness of the "PICU Up!" Multifaceted Early Mobility Intervention for Critically Ill Children
While mortality in U.S. pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) is improving, surviving children frequently develop persistent physical, cognitive, and psychological impairments.
- Conditions
- Child, Intensive Care Unit Acquired Weakness, Critical Illness, Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcer
- Trial name
- PICU Up! (NCT04989790)
- Testing
- PICU Up!
- Where
- 11 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 1,470 people
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University