Chemical Ice Packs for Cooling Hyperthermic Patients

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Heat Stroke, Heat Exhaustion
• Interventions: Other: Chemical Cold Pack

• Registration Number: NCT01694290
• Lead Sponsor: Stanford University

Brief Summary

A common tool to cool people in the pre-hospital setting is the chemical ice pack. These are used by athletic trainers, EMS personnel, ER staff, and people in the prehosoital setting.

The ability of these to cool a person has never been quantified, the efficiency and extent of cooling, as well as location of placement of ice packs is purely anecdotal. The purpose of this study is to determine whether strategically placed chemical ice packs will provide benefit to individuals subjected to heat stress.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-08
• Study First Submitted: 2012-09-24
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-09-24
• Study First Posted: 2012-09-27
• Primary Completion: 2013-07
• Study Completion: 2013-07
• Status Verified: 2018-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-11-21
• Last Update Posted: 2018-11-26

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Male
• Target Recruitment: 8

Inclusion Criteria

• young healthy males > 18 years old with no active medical problems and able to run 10 km.

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Exclusion Criteria

• Active medical problems or inability to exercise for 45 minutes in a heated room.

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Chemical Ice Packs to cheeks, palms, soles	Chemical Cold Pack	Chemical Ice packs will be changed out every 9 minutes
Chemical Ice packs to neck, groin, axillae	Chemical Cold Pack	Chemical ice packs will be changed out every 9 minutes

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Core body temperature cooling	35 minutes

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Stanford University; 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States