Sous Vide Rewarming for Frostbitten Extremities

Dartmouth Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Frostbite of Foot; Frostbite; Frostbite of Hand

Treatments: Device: Sous Vide Device (SVD)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04633174

D21002

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy of using sous vide devices for heating and maintaining the circulating warm water bath used in the rewarming of acute frostbite.

Enrollment: 1 patient

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18 or up
• Age <17 with parent or guardian consent
• Ability to understand English
• Ability to provide consent to the study
• Acute frostbite of the hands or feet

Exclusion criteria

• Children under age 18 without parent or guardian
• Frostbite that has already thawed
• Frostbite of tissue other than hands or feet
• Inability to understand English
• Inability to provide consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1 participants in 1 patient group

Sous vide device

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention will be the use of a sous vide device to heat the water bath to 38oC, rather than the traditional methods of manual water exchanges or placing the frostbitten tissue under running water.

Treatment:

Device: Sous Vide Device (SVD)