NCT01793558

Incidence and Prevention of Hypothermia in Newborns Bonding During Caesarean Section

Study That Evaluates the Incidence and Possibilities for Prevention of Hypothermia in Newborns Bonding During Caesarean Section

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Minutes
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study should evaluate whether newborns during cesarean section are endangered to get hypothermic while bonding on the mothers chest. Therefore, the investigators want to investigate the effects of active cutaneous warming of the mothers and babies during intraoperative bonding. The investigators plan to enroll 40 parturients scheduled for elective caesarean section to receive passive insulation or forced-air skin surface warming. The investigators will measure core temperature of the newborns and their mothers. The investigators hypothesize that newborns became most often hypothermic without active warming during the bonding procedure and that active warming will be able to decrease the number of hypothermic newborns significantly.

Detailed description

Little is known about the thermoregulatory effects on babies when bonding on the chest of the mother during caesarian section. The aim of our study is to evaluate whether newborns during cesarean section are endangered to get hypothermic while bonding on the mothers chest. The investigators want to investigate the effects of active cutaneous warming of the mothers and babies during a 20 min intraoperative bonding period. The investigators plan to enroll 40 parturients scheduled for elective caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia to receive passive insulation or forced-air skin surface warming. The investigators will measure core temperature of the newborns and their mothers. The investigators hypothesize that newborns became most often hypothermic without active warming during the bonding procedure and that active warming will be able to decrease the number of hypothermic newborns significantly.

Conditions

• Thermoregulation Impairment
• Hypothermia
• Postoperative Shivering

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Forced-air warming	In the intervention group a forced-air cover (Level 1 Snuggle Warm Upper Body Blanket, Smiths Medicals) will be positioned over the upper body of the patients laying on the operating table just beginning after the spinal block.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-02-01
• Primary completion: 2013-04-01
• Completion: 2013-04-01
• First posted: 2013-02-15
• Last updated: 2013-05-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany