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Perioperative Hypothermia in Patients Submitted to Laparoscopic Urological Surgery

NCT03617809 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 99

Last updated 2020-07-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Hypothermia is a frequent perioperative complication. Its appearance can have deleterious effects such as perioperative bleeding or surgical site infection. 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 laparoscopic urological surgery under general anesthesia. This is an observational prospective study comparing routine practice of pre-warming in consecutive surgical patients scheduled to laparoscopic prostatectomy or nephrectomy between August and December 2018. In this study 64 - 96 patients will be included 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 an esophagic 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
  • Anesthesia; Adverse Effect
  • Peroperative Complication
  • Postoperative Complications
  • Surgical Site Infection
  • Temperature Change, Body

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Preoperative warming

The prewarming time will not be decided by the clinical investigator. Prewarming time will depend on the time the patient has to wait before entering in the operating room.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

    collaborator OTHER

  • Ángel Becerra

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ángel Becerra, MD · Doctor Negrin University Hospital

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-08-06
Primary Completion
2019-10-24
Completion
2019-10-24

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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