NCT03429205

The Efficacy of External Warming During Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: Sheba Medical Center · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

External warming is routinely used in general surgery to offset the deleterious effects of hypothermia. It entails deployment of a disposable, external heating blanket attached to a regulated hot-air pump. The need for external warming in the morbidly obese population undergoing short laparoscopic procedures is unclear. If proven to be unnecessary, time and momentary costs could be lowered. The study will compare core-temperature dynamics during laparoscopic bariatric procedures anticipated to last \<2h. The study group will be left without a warming blanket while the control group will receive routine external warming. Post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) arrival temperature will also be recorded.

Conditions

• Hypothermia
• Morbid Obesity
• Bariatric Surgery Candidate

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	No external heating used during surgery	Deviation from external heating for all surgery standard
OTHER	External heating blanket used during surgery	Standard external heating plan used in all surgery types

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-03-15
• Primary completion: 2022-11-21
• Completion: 2022-11-21
• First posted: 2018-02-12
• Last updated: 2023-04-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel