NCT03496220

Effect of Angulus on Patient-elevation Compliance

Measuring the Effect of Angulus on Patient-elevation Compliance

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (actual)
• Sponsor: Angulus, LLC · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Ventilator-associated events (VAE) are a scourge of critical care settings and hospital systems at large. There is extensive evidence that ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and related VAEs increase mortality rates in critically ill patients by up to 50%, while simultaneously increasing cost of care. C Best-practice guidelines state that positioning ventilated patients at an angle between 30-45 degrees significantly reduces the potential for VAP and other VAE to develop. While the intent of the guidelines is to govern patient elevation angle, the lack of a mechanism to accurately measure patient elevation requires that nurses rely on the head-of-bed (HOB) protractor - a tool which reflects the angle of the bed, not the patient - to measure compliance. Depending upon the position and posture of the patient in the bed, a patient's elevation angle may be significantly different from the HOB angle. Critical care teams currently rely on built-in HOB protractors and digital inclinometers that measure the angle of the bed not the patient. Angulus, LLC has developed a dual-component Angulus sensor to fill this gap in critical care technology. Angulus enables critical care practitioners to instantaneously understand a patient's elevation, identify when the patient is outside of the desired 30-45 degree recumbency scope, and efficiently correct the patient's orientation with immediate feedback. Angulus supports real-time minute-to-minute data display as well as longitudinal aggregation of data.

Conditions

• Ventilator Adverse Event
• Ventilator Associated Pneumonia
• Hospital Acquired Condition
• Hospital-acquired Pneumonia
• Recumbency
• Head-of-bed

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Angulus	Feedback on patient recumbency

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-07-10
• Primary completion: 2018-09-30
• Completion: 2018-09-30
• First posted: 2018-04-12
• Last updated: 2024-03-06
• Results posted: 2021-01-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study