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Preoperative Patient Warming for Prevention of Perioperative Hypothermia in Major Abdominal Surgery

NCT01795482 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 99

Last updated 2014-12-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The study should evaluate how long patients undergoing major abdominal surgery under combined general/epidural anaesthesia have to be actively warmed preoperatively to prevent perioperative hypothermia and postoperative shivering. 99 patients will receive forced-air skin-surface warming for different duration. Body temperature will be measured at the tympanic membrane. The investigators hypothesize that active warming before starting the epidural anaesthesia will decrease the incidence of perioperative hypothermia.

Conditions

  • Preoperative Warming
  • Prewarming
  • Perioperative Hypothermia
  • General Anaesthesia
  • Epidural Anaesthesia
  • Temperature Monitoring

Interventions

DEVICE

Forced-air warming

In the intervention groups a forced-air cover (Level 1 Snuggle Warm Upper Body Blanket, Smiths Medicals) will be positioned over the patients sitting or laying on the operating table for 15 min before start of epidural anaesthesia and afterwards till start of general anaesthesia (group 3), for 15 min before start of general anaesthesia (group 2) or only after induction of general anaesthesia (group 1, control). All patients will receive forced-air warming after induction of general anaesthesia till end of surgery.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jan Hoecker, M.D. · University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-01-31
Primary Completion
2014-08-31
Completion
2014-08-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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