Utility of Interface Pressure Mapping

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Bedsores; Ulcers
• Interventions: Device: Mapping System; Device: Non-Mapping System

• Registration Number: NCT01439581
• Lead Sponsor: Henry Ford Health System

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-08
• Study First Submitted: 2011-09-22
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-09-22
• Study First Posted: 2011-09-23
• Primary Completion: 2011-10
• Study Completion: 2012-09
• Results First Submitted: 2017-08-10
• Results First Submitted QC: 2018-07-31
• Results First Posted: 2018-08-29
• Status Verified: 2019-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-09-10
• Last Update Posted: 2019-09-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 428

Inclusion Criteria

• 18 years and older,
• care giver trained on mapping system

Exclusion Criteria

• Less than 18 years,
• pregnant women,
• weight greater 550 lbs, and subjects requiring a specialty mattress

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Patients on mapping systems	Mapping System	-
Patients not on mapping systems	Non-Mapping System	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Pressure Mapping Reducing Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers	Time admitted in the Medical Intensive Care Unit	Comparing number of pressure ulcers when using pressure mapping compared to when not.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Henry Ford Hospital; 🇺🇸 Detroit, Michigan, United States