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Clinical Trials/ACTRN12614000931673
ACTRN12614000931673
Completed
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A prospective randomised controlled trial to determine if thermal insulation with reflective blankets is more effective than cotton blankets in reducing the temperature gradient from the body's periphery to the core during the preoperative phase in adult patients undergoing short surgery and thus reducing the intraoperative drop in core temperature.

Michael Koenen0 sites328 target enrollmentAugust 29, 2014

Overview

Phase
未知
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Inadvertent Perioperative Hypothermia
Sponsor
Michael Koenen
Enrollment
328
Status
Completed
Last Updated
6 years ago

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry
who.int
Start Date
August 29, 2014
End Date
TBD
Last Updated
6 years ago
Study Type
Interventional
Sex
All

Investigators

Sponsor
Michael Koenen

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • adult patients 18 years and over who undergo elective surgery where the estimated time of surgery is less tha one hour;
  • \- American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) classification 3 and under;
  • \- general anaesthesia or combined general/regional

Exclusion Criteria

  • \- ASA 4 and over;
  • \- surgery predicted longer than one hour;
  • \- predicted local/regional anaesthesia or sedation;
  • \- patients who do not consent for their data to be collected to be used for research purposes;
  • \- patients whose surgery will be cancelled or postponed;
  • \- when nurses are not able to consent patients due to workload
  • \- surgery to the head, nose and throat

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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