36
Participants
Start Date
March 5, 2018
Primary Completion Date
September 13, 2018
Study Completion Date
October 30, 2018
Positioning schedule
"Applying repositioning schedule daily adapted to pressure ulcer risk assessed with Braden scale. Then, the nurse will applied oil for PU prevention and repositioning which frequency will be defined by the Braden score. The positions will be the semi-fowler 30-30, the half-sitting position with a 45° angle position and patient lying on their back with the head up with a 30° angle for ventilator associated pneumonia prevention.~Repositioning schedule will be applied according to the daily medical prescription. When physician allows to sit the patient on a chair, this have to be done by raising feet on a stool. Therefore, patients will stay in that chair as long as defined by positioning schedule. When patient is returned to bed, same positions as described above will be used alternately. In the time of positioning care, oil usually used for PU prevention will be applied on the skin of the areas of high risk of PU (heels, sacrum, elbows, trochanter, knees) and bone projections."
Hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, Paris
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
OTHER