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The Effect of a Vapor Barrier in Combination With Active External Rewarming for Patients With Accidental Hypothermia

NCT05779722 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 16

Last updated 2023-03-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Most guidelines recommend the use of a vapor barrier when wrapping and isolating hypothermic patients from the environment, and this is especially important if the patient is wearing wet clothing. The vapor barrier will contain moisture evaporated from the wet clothes of the patient and increase the humidity. Once the humidity levels reach 100%, the evaporation and thereby the evaporative heat loss will stop. The theory is that the addition of a vapor barrier will reduce the amount of heat loss and contribute to more efficient rewarming of wet, hypothermic patients. We aim to investigate how much more efficient a wrapping model with active external rewarming is with the addition of a vapor barrier.

Conditions

  • Hypothermia, Accidental

Interventions

DEVICE

Vapor barrier

Vapor barrier

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Haukeland University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Torbjørn Nedrebø, PhD · Research director

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-03-08
Primary Completion
2023-03-17
Completion
2024-03-15

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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