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Active Warming During Elective Caesearean Section

NCT02201095 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 130

Last updated 2016-10-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

During anaesthesia for caesarean section it is common to lose heat and become hypothermic, (\<36 degrees C). In order to try and avoid this all women are given warmed intravenous fluid and insulated from cold surfaces. There are also 2 types of machine available to actively warm women;

1. Forced Air Warming - that uses a disposable sheet the woman lies upon with lots of air pockets that have warm air blown into them continuously by a fan.
2. Conduction Warming Mattress - a thin mattress which covers the operating table and the woman lies on top. The padded mattress has strips of material that heat up when electricity passes through it, similar to a normal electric blanket.

We plan to carry out a randomised controlled trial to compare these 2 methods with the current practice of no active warming.

The hypothesis for this study is that active warming women during elective caesarean section prevents women's temperature from dropping and keeps them more comfortable than if active warming were not used.

Conditions

  • Preoperative Hypothermia

Interventions

DEVICE

Forced air warming

DEVICE

Conduction warming mattress

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Melanie J Woolnough, Mb ChB · Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-10-31
Primary Completion
2016-01-31
Completion
2016-01-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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