Comparison Study of Intraoperative Patient Warming Systems

Status unconfirmed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Orthopedic Surgery, General Anesthesia

In brief

Medications used to put people to sleep during surgical procedures also cause changes in the body's ability to control its temperature. These changes can make a person's temperature drop below normal. To minimize this drop in body temperature, different types of body warming products are used during surgery. This study is designed to compare the the temperatures of people under general anesthesia after 60 minutes of warming with each product. The study hypothesis is that the people warmed with the Dynatherm Medical vitalHEAT vH2 System will decrease less in the first 60 minutes of warming time than people warmed with the Arizant Bair Hugger System.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00670826

Run by

Dynatherm Medical Inc.

People needed

100

Starts

2008-07-01

Expected to finish

2008-11-01

Last updated by the study team

2008-05-02

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Pts undergoing orthopedic surgical procedure with expected duration 2-3 hrs
• General anesthesia required
• ASA physical status I-III

You may not qualify if…

• General anesthesia plus epidural anesthesia required
• Skin abrasions/trauma to extremity selected as application site
• History of peripheral vascular disease
• History of malignant hyperthermia
• Unwilling/unable to give consent

Where it is running

• Mayo Clinic Hospital — Phoenix, Arizona, United States

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