NCT00670826

Comparison Study of Intraoperative Patient Warming Systems

Intraoperative Warming: Comparison of Performance of the Dynatherm Medical vitalHEAT Temperature Management System(vH2)With the Arizant Bair Hugger System

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Dynatherm Medical Inc. · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Medications used to put people to sleep during surgical procedures also cause changes in the body's ability to control its temperature. These changes can make a person's temperature drop below normal. To minimize this drop in body temperature, different types of body warming products are used during surgery. This study is designed to compare the the temperatures of people under general anesthesia after 60 minutes of warming with each product. The study hypothesis is that the people warmed with the Dynatherm Medical vitalHEAT vH2 System will decrease less in the first 60 minutes of warming time than people warmed with the Arizant Bair Hugger System.

Conditions

• Orthopedic Surgery
• General Anesthesia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	vitalHEAT vH2 Temperature Management System	The vH2 system utilizes a combination of localized heat and vacuum application to one hand \& forearm; this application opens AVAs in the palm of the hand and warms the extremity thus effectively warming the blood flowing to the body's core.
DEVICE	Arizant Healthcare Bair Hugger Temperature Management System	The Bair Hugger system is a forced air system providing convective warming via the circulation of warmed air through specially designed blanket which is placed over a portion of the body

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-07-01
• Primary completion: 2008-09-01
• Completion: 2008-11-01
• First posted: 2008-05-02
• Last updated: 2008-05-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States