Prevalence Survey in France of Unintentional Perioperative Hypothermia and Its Impact on Two Outcomes (HYPOTHERMIE)

Société Française d'Anesthésie et de Réanimation

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Hypothermia, Perioperative

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02790086

13-HYPOTHERMIE

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary objectives of the study are

• to perform a survey on the clinical management of unintentional hypothermia during surgery in France.
• to assess the impact of perioperative hypothermia on anemia and myocardial injury.

Full description

100 investigation centers in metropolitan France will participate in the study, targeting 2000 included patients (20 surgical interventions in each center). The duration of inclusion in each center should last at most 2 weeks.

The selected surgical interventions will be those performed with a high frequency, practiced in all types of hospitals (public, private, university hospital or not), and requiring anesthesia of at leat 30 minutes (general, epidural or intrathecal anesthesia).

Enrollment: 2,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 45+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Non-ambulatory surgery.
• Duration of anesthesia > 30 minutes.
• Type of surgery: urology, gynecological, gastrointestinal, vascular and orthopedics surgery.
• Type of anesthesia: general, intrathecal or epidural anesthesia.
• patient ≥ 45 years.
• No opposition of patient to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Emergency surgery.
• Cardiac surgery, proctology surgery or thoracic surgery.
• Digestive endoscopy or surgical radiology.
• Septic surgery.
• Patient with at least one organ failure.