Prevention of IPH: Electric Warming Mattress vs Forced Air Warming Blanket

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

Status: Completed

Conditions: Patient Warming; Inadvertent Perioperative Hypothermia

Treatments: Other: warming blanket; Other: warming mattress

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01056991

09/183/HAR

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will determine if modern under-patient warming mattresses are as effective as forced air warming blankets in preventing cold and shivering in patients scheduled for non emergency surgery.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients undergoing elective (non emergency) surgery who will require intra-operative warming
• Patients whose surgery will be performed with them in the supine position

Exclusion criteria

• Abdominal aortic aneurysm repair
• All adults (over 18 years) who refuse,who are unable to fully understand the trial
• ALL laparoscopic surgeries

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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120 participants in 2 patient groups

warming mattress

Experimental group

Description:

Patient warmed with electric mattress

Treatment:

Other: warming mattress

warming blanket

Active Comparator group

Description:

Forced air warming blanket

Treatment:

Other: warming blanket