Comparison of Upper and Lower Body Air Warming in Patients Undergoing Thoracic Surgery

Seoul National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Core Body Temperature

Treatments: Device: Bair Hugger

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02993666

JHSeo_FAW

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of forced air warming using upper and lower body blankets by measuring core body temperature in patients undergoing video-assisted thoracic surgery in the lateral decubitus position over 2 hours of general anesthesia.

Enrollment: 135 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients undergoing video-assisted thoracic surgery over 2 hours
• ASA I, II and III
• age over 18 years

Exclusion criteria

• refuse to enroll
• patients with fever or hypothermia before surgery
• patients who required changes of position during surgery

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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135 participants in 2 patient groups

upper body

Experimental group

Description:

warming with upper body blankets

Treatment:

Device: Bair Hugger

lower body

Experimental group

Description:

warming with lower body blankets

Treatment:

Device: Bair Hugger