an Educational Program About Abdominal Compartment Syndrome (Ghada)

Temporal Trend Analysis of Nurse's Knowledge and Practice Before and After Implementing an Educational Program Regarding Abdominal Compartment Syndrome

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Intraabdominal Hypertension
• Intervention / Treatment: Procedure: transducer technique

Detailed Description

Measurement of intra-abdominal pressure is simple, inexpensive, safe and accurate method in determining the presence of intra-abdominal hypertension. This measurement can guide patient management. Monitoring intra-abdominal pressure and abdominal per-fusion pressure.

for signs of abdominal compartment syndrome has become an inexpensive and useful diagnostics tool for identifying complications. An integrated approach to screening and monitoring for intra-abdominal hypertension may improve patient outcomes and decrease hospital costs. Due to the high incidence of intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome, it is essential for critical care nurses to regularly monitor intra-abdominal pressure and abdominal per-fusion pressure.

Critical care nurses have the ability to identify intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome, implement and evaluate management interventions. Nursing practice should be centered on evidence based practice guidelines . Nurses should provide a standard of care in managing patients who are at risk of intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome from pre hospital, emergency, operating room and intensive care areas

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 50
• Phase: Phase 3

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Egypt
  • Assuit
    • Egypt, Assuit, Egypt, 02
      • Faculty of Nursing

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 15 years to 45 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

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

Exclusion Criteria:

• nurses less than one year experience

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: ttransducer technique; the nurses will measure intraabdominal pressure at each shift during the day by using transducer technique	Procedure: transducer technique; 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; Other Names: monitoring intraabdominal pressure

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
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 Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
prevent abdominal compartment syndrome	measure inta-abdominal pressure correctly and continuously monitor signs of increased intrabdominal pressure	3 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Assiut University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Ghada Sh Khalaf, Lecturer, Assuit University Hospital

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• 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.
• 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.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: December 1, 2015
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): April 1, 2016
• Study Completion (Anticipated): October 1, 2016

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 17, 2015
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 20, 2015
• First Posted (Estimate): December 24, 2015

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): December 24, 2015
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 20, 2015
• Last Verified: November 1, 2015

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Cardiovascular Diseases; Vascular Diseases; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Muscular Diseases; Compartment Syndromes; Intra-Abdominal Hypertension
• Other Study ID Numbers: AAH100