NCT01828151

Noninvasive Positive Airway Pressure Ventilation and Risk of Facial Pressure Ulcers

Noninvasive Positive Airway Pressure Ventilation and Risk of Facial Pressure Ulcers in Patients With Acute Respiratory Failure

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 170 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ospedale S. Giovanni Bosco · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To assess risk of skin pressure lesions in patients treated with noninvasive mechanical ventilation.

Detailed description

Noninvasive ventilation improves the outcome of patients with acute respiratory failure; however patient's discomfort may be responsible for up to a fifth of failures. Scant literature exists on NIV-related pressure ulcers and their determinants. Aim of the study is to seek for determinants, if any, associated with the development of pressure ulcers related to noninvasive ventilation. Study design: observational. Patients treated with NIV from December 2009 to December 2011 will be analyzed. Main end-points: to seek for variables associated to the development of NIV-related pressure ulcers in patients with acute respiratory failure.

Conditions

• Acute Respiratory Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Noninvasive ventilation mask

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-12-01
• Primary completion: 2011-12-01
• Completion: 2013-03-01
• First posted: 2013-04-10
• Last updated: 2013-04-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy