NCT01006837

Hypothermia in the Trauma Patient - When do Trauma Patients Get Cold?

Hypothermia in the Trauma Patient - Temperature Changes During Transport and Initial Treatment in Hospital

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to analyze changes in core body- and skin temperature during pre-hospital and early in-hospital treatment of multi-traumatized patients. The researchers want to investigate when trauma patients get cold and to what extent.

Detailed description

Hypothermia is a common finding in severely traumatized patients. Decreases in core temperature during the course of initial evaluation and resuscitation are common, and can contribute to poor outcomes in multi-traumatized patients. In this study the temperature will be recorded continually with multiple skin probes and an ear-probe from the site of the accident to arrival in the intensive care unit (including time in primary surgery, if any).

Conditions

• Hypothermia

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-10-01
• Primary completion: 2012-08-01
• Completion: 2014-08-01
• First posted: 2009-11-03
• Last updated: 2017-02-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway