NCT01649596

Impact of Expanded Peri Operative Warming

Impact of Expanded Peri Operative Warming for Patients Undergoing Elective Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 94 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ascension Health · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this proposed study is to evaluate a normothermia protocol that includes preoperative warming and standard intra operative temperature management in patients undergoing general surgery.

Detailed description

This study was designed to evaluate a normothermia protocol that includes preoperative warming and standard intra operative temperature management in patients undergoing general surgery. It compares short term outcomes in patients for whom warming is expanded by commencing in the pre operative area and is maintained through post operative recovery versus patients receiving the standard warming at time of induction. Patients were randomly assigned to either a warming blanket device or standard warming procedures. The study tested for differences in the rate of hypothermic events between the two groups. A secondary goal was to test for differences in the complication rate and patient satisfaction between the two groups. This study is testing the hypothesis that expanded warming significantly reduces rates of hypothermia and complications over standard warming used only during surgery.

Conditions

• Hypothermia
• Complications

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Warming Gown	Forced air warming Gown and portable warming unit that follows patient from pre-operative through surgery and into post-operative recovery.
OTHER	Standard of care warming	The intervention is standard of care, placing warm blankets on the patient at time of pre operative preparation through the procedure and into recovery.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-08-01
• Primary completion: 2013-04-01
• Completion: 2013-04-01
• First posted: 2012-07-25
• Last updated: 2018-04-05
• Results posted: 2018-04-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States