NCT03118960

Effectiveness of the Freedom Bed as Compared to Alternating Pressure Mattress in Treatment of Pressure Injuries in Persons With Limited Mobility Due to Traumatic Brain Injury and /or Spinal Cord Injury

Effectiveness of the Freedom Bed and Alternating Pressure Mattress in Treatment of Pressure Injuries in Persons With Limited Mobility Due to Traumatic Brain Injury and /or Spinal Cord Injury

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 9 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Northeast Center for Rehabilitation and Brain Injury · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This non-randomized clinical study will compare pressure injuries and the change in pressure injuries for subjects who are placed on the Freedom Bed compared to those placed on a standard Group II Low Air Loss/Alternating Pressure Mattress in the Ventilator Unit at Northeast Center for Rehabilitation and Brain Injury. Additionally, the incidence of pneumonia, urinary tract infections, circulatory performance, sleep deprivation and caregiver self-perception on performance will be monitored and documented.

Detailed description

Detailed Description: This study will include 9 ventilator or oxygen dependent subjects with comparable diagnoses, nutritional levels and Stage III and/or IV pressure injuries. Of the subjects selected, 5 subjects will be placed on Freedom Beds and 4 will be placed on Group II Low Air Loss/Alternating Pressure Mattresses for a period not less than 6 months. A waiver of informed consent is required prior to bed placement and data collection. Consented subjects will have primary and secondary diagnosis recorded, pressure injuries photographed and classified, assessment of ventilator/oxygen support measured, oxygenation levels, nutrition levels, and estimated cardiac condition. Subjects will receive daily treatment and wound care as prescribed by the attending physician with weekly measurements and reporting of values. Subjects will continue until they reach one of the study endpoints: 1) discharge from the ventilator unit, or 2) withdrawal of informed consent, or 3) completion of the 6-month study. Subjects placed on Freedom Beds will be automatically turned in accordance with positions determined optimal and approved by the attending physician. All programmable turning angles, dwell times, head and leg elevations must be "dialed in" within a week of the study beginning. Any modification to the program during the study must be approved by the care team and documented accordingly. Subjects placed on Group II Low Air Loss/Alternating Pressure Mattresses will require manual repositioning every 2 hours. All turning and/or repositioning must be timed and documented. The primary and secondary outcome measures documented on each subject throughout the week will be collected by the Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC) on a weekly basis and submitted to the Principal Investigator. The weekly reports will then be consolidated by the CRC into a monthly report and submitted to the Institutional Review Board (IRB), Principal Investigators (PI) and Supervising Authorities (SA) for review.

Conditions

• Pressure Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Freedom Bed	This is an automatic rotational system in a bed designed to disburse capillary pressure
DEVICE	Group II Low Air Loss/Alternating Pressure Mattress	Subjects placed on the Group II Low Air Loss/Alternating Pressure Mattresses will require manual repositioning every 2 hours

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-09-01
• Primary completion: 2017-09-01
• Completion: 2017-11-01
• First posted: 2017-04-18
• Last updated: 2017-04-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study