Right Lateral Positioning of Postoperative Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Assiut University60 enrolled

Overview

Directly following cardiac surgery for congenital heart disease; patients are not receiving routine turning every two hours to prevent pressure ulcers, because a negative influence on hemodynamic parameters is assumed. Investigators have suggested that lateral position may have clinically significant effects on oxygenation in cardiac surgery patients.

Sixty pediatric congenital heart disease patients were randomly assigned to two equal intervention groups

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Heart Defects, Congenital

Interventions

Right lateral position (2 hours)PROCEDURE

Repositioning the patients for two-hours period on the right lateral position

Left lateral position (30 minutes)PROCEDURE

Repositioning the patients for 30 minutes period on the left lateral position

Supine position (30 minutes)PROCEDURE

Repositioning the patients for 30 minutes period on the supine position

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 1 YearMax age: 10 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Age within 10 years with a cyanotic congenital heart disease * Hemodynamic stability with no compromising arrhythmia * No respiratory arrest * Not connected with mechanical ventilation Exclusion Criteria: * Cyanotic congenital heart disease * Hemodynamic instability

Locations (1)

Faculty of Medicine

Asyut, Egypt

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