A study to compare two techniques of warming the patient with warm air (starting warming 1 h before anesthesia and starting warming with start of anesthesia) to prevent reduction in patients body temperature during the surgery
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Patients undergoing elective laparotomy under general anaesthesia with expected duration of more than 2 hrs
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2016/10/007418
- Lead Sponsor
- Kasturba Hospital Kasturba Medical College Manipal
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 60
Inclusion Criteria
1)adult patients of either gender
2)age 18 to 65 years
3)ASA physical status 1 and 2
4)Body mass index of 18.5 to 25
5)undergoing elective laparotomy under general anaesthesia with expected duration of more than 2 hrs.
Exclusion Criteria
1.Patients suffering from endocrine disorders like thyroid disease, dysautotonia , Cushing syndrome, diabetes mellitus with autonomic neuropathy
2.Patients affected with peripheral vascular disease like Raynaudâ??s syndrome
3.Critically ill or haemodynamically unstable patients who may require massive rapid intravenous fluid resuscitation
4.Febrile patients
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method