Physical Restraint-related Skin Injuries Among Patients in Intensive Care: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Pressure injuries were most frequently observed in the neurosurgery and anesthesia/reanimation intensive care units.

They were more common among patients who were 70 years old or younger, male, had a high body mass index, received antiepileptic therapy, were restrained for more than 46 hours, or were restrained using gauze or tight bonds ( P < .001).