Warming perioperative multilayer blanket assessment
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Prevention of intra-operative hypothermiaSurgery
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN34213075
- Lead Sponsor
- Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 76
Inclusion Criteria
Patients undergoing primary total hip or knee replacement surgery
Exclusion Criteria
1. Patients unable to provide informed consent (learning difficulties, cognitive impairment)
2. Patients with a higher likelihood of developing infection (rheumatoid arthritis or other inflammatory arthropathy; patients on immunosuppressive drugs)
3. Patients with unusually complex primary arthroplasty (likely to last > 1h 45 minutes) (infection rates are partly determined by the length of time the wound is open, as is the likelihood of cooling)
4. Patients with a history or family history of hyper pyrexia related to anaesthesia
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Forehead temperature, measured using a temporal infra red thermometer at intervals during procedure (at start and every 15 minutes), at the time of arrival into the recovery ward and at the time of return to the elective surgery ward
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> Measured during stay in recovery ward on day of operation:<br> 1. Postoperative pain, assessed by VAS as routinely administered at postoperative intervals<br> 2. Recorded shivering<br> 3. Blood loss, estimated by Hb drop across the operation<br> 4. Days until mobile enough to go home<br>