NCT04399902

Study to Actively Warm Trauma Patients

STudy to ActivelY WARM Trauma Patients (STAY WARM): A Feasibility Pilot Evaluation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 15 (actual)
• Sponsor: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the feasibility of using thermal blankets to actively warm massively bleeding trauma patients at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. It is hypothesized that either full thermal blankets or half thermal blankets will be a feasible intervention to implement for the care of massively bleeding trauma patients.

Detailed description

Hypothermia (core body temperature of \<36˚C), is a strong risk factor for mortality and poor outcomes in trauma patients due to its negative hemostatic, cardiovascular, respiratory, and renal effects. Current evidence has reported that massively bleeding hypothermic trauma patients have higher odds of mortality in the first 24 hours of hospital admission, increased length of stay, and increased need for transfusion. Standard hospital blankets are used to passively warm patients through resuscitation and treatment until arrival to the ICU. Interventions such as active heating through thermal blankets should be considered to prevent and treat hypothermia upon arrival of patients than standard warmed hospital blankets to prevent deleterious outcomes in this population.

Conditions

• Massive Blood Loss
• Hypothermia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Thermal Blanket	Ready-Heat 6-Panel Blanket (Military style, manufactured by Techtrade LLC). The 6-panel military-style blanket (86cm x 152 cm, 1.13kg) warms to 40˚C in approximately 15-20 minutes and maintains this temperature for 10 hours.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-10-05
• Primary completion: 2021-04-01
• Completion: 2021-04-01
• First posted: 2020-05-22
• Last updated: 2021-04-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada