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Incidence and Prevention of Hypothermia in Newborns Bonding During Caesarean Section

NCT01793558 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2013-05-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study should evaluate whether newborns during cesarean section are endangered to get hypothermic while bonding on the mothers chest.

Therefore, the investigators want to investigate the effects of active cutaneous warming of the mothers and babies during intraoperative bonding. The investigators plan to enroll 40 parturients scheduled for elective caesarean section to receive passive insulation or forced-air skin surface warming. The investigators will measure core temperature of the newborns and their mothers. The investigators hypothesize that newborns became most often hypothermic without active warming during the bonding procedure and that active warming will be able to decrease the number of hypothermic newborns significantly.

Conditions

  • Thermoregulation Impairment
  • Hypothermia
  • Postoperative Shivering

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Forced-air warming

In the intervention group a forced-air cover (Level 1 Snuggle Warm Upper Body Blanket, Smiths Medicals) will be positioned over the upper body of the patients laying on the operating table just beginning after the spinal block.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Berthold Bein, M.D. · University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Max Age
20 Minutes
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-02-28
Primary Completion
2013-04-30
Completion
2013-04-30

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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