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Perioperative Hypothermia in Patients Submitted to Transurethral Resection

NCT03527329 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2018-05-17

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Summary

Hypothermia is a frequent perioperative complication. Its appearance can have deleterious effects such as myocardial ischemia or perioperative bleeding. When the negative effects of anesthesia on temperature are aggravated by other factors, such as glycine infusion in transurethral resection, temperature can decrease even more. Once the temperature has decreased, its treatment is difficult. Preoperative warming prevents hypothermia, lowering the temperature gradient between core and peripheral compartments and reducing thermal redistribution. The most recent clinical practice guidelines advocate for active prewarming before induction of general anaesthesia since it is very effective in preventing perioperative hypothermia. However, the ideal warming time prior to the induction of anesthesia has long been investigated. This study aims to evaluate if different time periods of preoperative forced-air warming reduces the incidence of hypothermia at the end of surgery in patients submitted to transurethral resection. This is an observational prospective study comparing routine practice of pre-warming in consecutive surgical patients scheduled to undergo elective transurethral resection between March 2014 and April 2018. Three-hundred patients are included in this study and prewarming will be applied following routine clinical practice. The prewarming time will depend on the time the patient has to wait before entering in the operating theatre. Measurement of temperature will be performed using a tympanic thermometer. Patients will be followed throughout their hospital admission. Data will be recorded using a validated instrument and will be analysed using the statistics program R Core Team.

Conditions

  • Hypothermia; Anesthesia
  • Peroperative Complication

Interventions

DEVICE

WarmTouch Model 5900, Covidien Ltd, Mansfield, USA

Forced-air warming will be applied following routine clinical practice. The pre-warming time will depend on the time the patient has to wait before entering in the operating room. Prewarming time will be recorded for each patient.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

    collaborator OTHER

  • Dr. Negrin University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Aurelio Rodríguez-Pérez, MD PhD · Dr. Negrin University Hospital

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-03-31
Primary Completion
2018-05-31
Completion
2018-05-31

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