NCT03824262

The Comparison of Warming Techniques in Patients Undergoing Open Abdominal Surgery in Litotomy Position

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 28 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hacettepe University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The patients scheduled to undergo major abdominal surgery in litotomy position will be randomized into two groups in order to compare the effects of two warming techniques during the intraoperative period.

Detailed description

The patients will be randomized into two groups. All patients will receive prewarming with forced-air warming device for 30 minutes. All patients will receive warmed fluids during intraoperative period. One group will receive warming with only forced-air warming device and the other group will receive warming with both forced-air warming device and water mattress. Timpanic, esophageal and peripheral temperature monitoring will be performed.

Conditions

• Temperature Change, Body

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	HICO-VARIOTHERM 550	Warming during perioperative period.
DEVICE	Mistral-Air Plus forced air warming device	Warming during perioperative period.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-02-04
• Primary completion: 2019-05-04
• Completion: 2019-05-04
• First posted: 2019-01-31
• Last updated: 2019-05-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)