The Effect of Temperature on Anesthesia and Surgical Resident's Ability to Perform Clinical and Cognitive Tasks

Vidya Raman

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anesthesia Providers

Treatments: Device: Psychomotor vigilance test (PVT

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02354755

IRB14-00858

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the current study is to examine whether changes in intraoperative ambient temperature has in impact on the clinical performance of the physicians in training which include Anesthesiology and Surgical residents, fellows and certified nurse anesthetists (CRNA). Reaction times will be measured via a 10-minute psychomotor vigilance test (PVT, Ambulatory Monitoring Inc., NY) device.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• CRNA or surgery or anesthesiology resident fellow in ongoing surgery case

Exclusion criteria

• unwilling to participate
• any clinical circumstance that precludes participation

Trial design

24 participants in 3 patient groups

Cold room

Description:

Anesthesia providers intraoperatively placed in ambient room temperature of 65 degreees (cold room), completing a 10-minute psychomotor vigilance test (PVT), followed up by a questionnaire on SurveyMonkey

Treatment:

Device: Psychomotor vigilance test (PVT

Hot room

Description:

Anesthesia providers intraoperatively placed in ambient room temperature of 80 degreees (hot room), completing a 10-minute psychomotor vigilance test (PVT), followed up by a questionnaire on SurveyMonkey

Treatment:

Device: Psychomotor vigilance test (PVT

Control Room

Description:

as a control placed Anesthesia providers in ambient room temperature of 75 degreees (neutral room), completing a 10-minute psychomotor vigilance test (PVT), followed up by a questionnaire on SurveyMonkey

Treatment:

Device: Psychomotor vigilance test (PVT