Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00603837
Warming Mattress Versus Polyethylene Wrapping to Prevent Hypothermia in Preterm Newborns.
Thermal Defense of Extremely Low Gestational Age Newborns (ELGANs) During Resuscitation: Exothermic Mattresses vs. Polyethylene Wrap
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 36 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University of Oklahoma · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 24 Weeks – 28 Weeks
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
Mean axillary temperatures, taken during NICU resuscitation upon admission to the NICU, will not differ between VLBW babies who are occlusively wrapped and very low birth weight (VLBW) babies who are placed on thermal warming blankets.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DEVICE | NeoWrap | This is a polyethylene wrap that will be placed around the ELGAN from the neck down to prevent heat loss. |
| DEVICE | InfaTherm | A gel blanket containing a sodium acetate-based medium that, when activated, becomes exothermic and provides heat. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2007-05-01
- Primary completion
- 2008-11-01
- Completion
- 2008-11-01
- First posted
- 2008-01-29
- Last updated
- 2009-10-16
- Results posted
- 2009-09-02
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00603837. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.