an Educational Program About Abdominal Compartment Syndrome

NCT02639013 | Unknown Phase 3 DMC

• 1 other identifier: AAH100
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 50
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Early detection of intra-abdominal hypertension is essential to the prevention of abdominal compartment syndrome and requires close surveillance of intra-abdominal hypertension in patients at increased risk. intra-abdominal hypertension measurements are often taken by the bedside nurse, and in some cases, initiation of serial intra-abdominal hypertension monitoring is prompted by critical care nurses.

Conditions

Intraabdominal Hypertension

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• improve nurses knowledge and practice about abdominal compartment syndrome

  pretest and post questionaire will be used to evaluate the improvement in nurses knowledge and practice about abdominal compartment syndrome

  6 months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• prevent abdominal compartment syndrome

  3 months

Study Arms (1)

ttransducer technique

EXPERIMENTAL

the nurses will measure intraabdominal pressure at each shift during the day by using transducer technique

Procedure: transducer technique

Interventions

transducer technique PROCEDURE

the nurses will receive the intervention ( the transducer method) to measure intraabdominal pressure intraabdominal hypertension and how to measure intraabdominal pressure in the third section

Also known as: monitoring intraabdominal pressure

ttransducer technique

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 15 Years - 45 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• all nurses that have more than one years experience in the trauma ,general and gastrointestinal ICU

You may not qualify if:

• nurses less than one year experience

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Assiut University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Faculty of Nursing

Egypt, Assuit, 02, Egypt

Location

Related Publications (2)

• Newcombe J, Mathur M, Bahjri K, Ejike JC. Pediatric critical care nurses' experience with abdominal compartment syndrome. Ann Intensive Care. 2012 Jul 5;2 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S6. doi: 10.1186/2110-5820-2-S1-S6. Epub 2012 Jul 5.

  PMID: 22873422 BACKGROUND

• Hunt L, Frost SA, Hillman K, Newton PJ, Davidson PM. Management of intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome: a review. J Trauma Manag Outcomes. 2014 Feb 5;8(1):2. doi: 10.1186/1752-2897-8-2.

  PMID: 24499574 BACKGROUND

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Intra-Abdominal Hypertension

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Compartment Syndromes; Muscular Diseases; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Vascular Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases

Study Officials

• Ghada Sh Khalaf, Lecturer

  Assuit university hospital

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: phase 3
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: lecturer in critical care nursing department

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 17, 2015
• First Posted: December 24, 2015
• Study Start: December 1, 2015
• Primary Completion: April 1, 2016
• Study Completion: October 1, 2016
• Last Updated: December 24, 2015

Record last verified: 2015-11

Locations

EG (1)