Comparison of Upper and Lower Body Air Warming in Patients Undergoing Thoracic Surgery

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Core Body Temperature
• Interventions: Device: Bair Hugger

• Registration Number: NCT02993666
• Lead Sponsor: Seoul National University Hospital

Brief Summary

This study is conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of forced air warming using upper and lower body blankets by measuring core body temperature in patients undergoing video-assisted thoracic surgery in the lateral decubitus position over 2 hours of general anesthesia.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-12
• Study First Submitted: 2016-12-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-12-13
• Study First Posted: 2016-12-15
• Status Verified: 2017-06
• Primary Completion: 2017-06
• Study Completion: 2017-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-06-09
• Last Update Posted: 2017-06-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 135

Inclusion Criteria

• patients undergoing video-assisted thoracic surgery over 2 hours
• ASA I, II and III
• age over 18 years

Exclusion Criteria

• refuse to enroll
• patients with fever or hypothermia before surgery
• patients who required changes of position during surgery

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
upper body	Bair Hugger	warming with upper body blankets
lower body	Bair Hugger	warming with lower body blankets

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
intraoperative incidence of hypothermia	through surgery completion, up to 4 hours

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Seoul National University Hospital; 🇰🇷 Seoul, Korea, Republic of