Clinical Trial: Soap-and-Water Bed Bath Versus Disposable Wipe Bath in the Same ICU Patients

U.S., Nov. 6 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07919912) titled 'Soap-and-Water Bed Bath Versus Disposable Wipe Bath in the Same ICU Patients' on Oct. 30.

Brief Summary: Bed bathing is a routine nursing procedure in the intensive care unit (ICU). In the study units, every patient routinely receives both a traditional bed bath with warm water and soap (every 10 days) and a bath with pre-packaged, disposable, no-rinse wipes (every 3 days). Little is known about how these two methods compare for pain, comfort and physiological stress in the same patient.

The goal of this randomized crossover trial is to compare the two bathing methods within the same adult ICU patients. The main question it aims to ...