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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
Main ID:  NCT00771238
Date of registration: 10/10/2008
Primary sponsor: Hill-Rom
Public title: Pilot Study of Incidence and Change in Existing Pressure Ulcers: TC500 Bed Compared With Standard Beds
Scientific title: A Pilot Study of Pressure Ulcer Incidence and Change in Existing Pressure Ulcers Comparing Subjects Placed on the TC500 Bed With Standard Beds in the 850-SICU Unit
Date of first enrolment: November 2008
Target sample size: 52
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00771238
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Non-Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention  
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:   Joyce Black, PhD, RN
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Telephone:
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Affiliation:  University of Nebraska
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Subjects admitted to the 850 Surgical ICU

2. Subjects or their legal reprehensive able to provide written consent for study

3. Subjects must be within the weight limits of the beds (70-500 lbs)

4. Subjects who do not require a specialty bed (subjective assessment by wound team)

5. Subjects are 19 years or older

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Subjects that do not wish to participate

2. Subjects thought to require a different mattress by current clinical bed protocols.

3. Subjects who require pulmonary clearance therapy delivered by a pulmonary mattress.

4. Subjects whose weight is outside of the limits of the bed system.

5. Subjects who have already completed 3 days of this study protocol and are considered
completed Subjects.



Age minimum: 19 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Pressure Ulcers
Intervention(s)
Device: TC500
Device: Total Care Treatment mattress
Primary Outcome(s)
Indicence of pressure ulcers [Time Frame: at the end of study period (21 days)]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Compliance to skin care protocol [Time Frame: End of Study]
Cost of rental beds [Time Frame: End of study]
Secondary ID(s)
CR-0095
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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