Active clinical trials for "Hypothermia"

The purpose of this study is to investigate the long term outcome of patients who receive hypothermia treatment for spinal cord injury. At this institution, intravascular hypothermia has been used for certain patients with spinal cord injury for the past two years. This study will collect data from vital signs and examinations while the patient is in the hospital and also when they follow up as an outpatient after they are discharged or go to a rehabilitation center. This data will then be analyzed and compared only to historically published data from previous studies. The aim of this investigation is to determine if intravascular hypothermia results in a beneficial outcome for patients with spinal cord injury.

The purpose of this study is to analyze changes in core body- and skin temperature during pre-hospital and early in-hospital treatment of multi-traumatized patients. The researchers want to investigate when trauma patients get cold and to what extent.

Resuscitated cardiac arrest (CA) is a frequent cause of admission in intensive care unit (ICU). Neurological state of postanoxic comatose patients can evolve either towards the absence of awakening or towards a more or less altered state of consciousness, ranging from the vegetative state to the full recovery of cognitive functions. Most of the deaths result from active withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, based on poor neurological outcome prediction. Neurological prognostication needs therefore a multimodal approach based on reliable parameters, which should be easy to access and available at the early stage of care, in attempt to limit false poor outcome prognostication and help to not prolong futile active care in patient with severe post anoxic cerebral lesions. Nowadays the prediction of neurological outcome relies on a multimodal strategy including clinical examination, biomarkers and electroencephalography (Guidelines ESICM 2015). Early standard electroencephalography (EEG) is currently recommended and some features, notably absence of reactivity, status epilepticus or burst suppression after rewarming are strongly predictive of poor outcome. But those features require a precise analyze of the EEG usually performed by specialist. EEG patterns can be simplified and classified in five grades according to the Synek classification, ranging from dominant reactive alpha activity (grade 1) to isoelectric encephalogram (grade 5). Grade 1 and two are considering as good prognostic, grade 3 as intermediate and grade 4 to five as poor prognostic. Nevertheless, few data are available on the performance of this classification since generalization of TTM use. We hypothesize that a multimodal strategy combining clinical examination, NSE concentration and the Synek score would bring a high degree of prediction. We aimed to assess the performances of the combination of clinical examination, NSE analysed at 48-72h and the Synek score to predict hard outcome defined by a cerebral performance category (CPC) 3-5, in postanoxic comatose patients treated with induced hypothermia

The overarching aim of this project is to determine the optimum enteral and parenteral nutrition strategy for newborns with Hypoxic Ischaemic Encephalopathy (HIE) during and after therapeutic hypothermia. To do this the investigators will perform two primary comparisons: ENTERAL: to determine whether any enteral (milk) feeding, when compared to withholding enteral feeding (no milk), during therapeutic hypothermia, is associated with a difference in the incidence of necrotising enterocolitis. PARENTERAL: to determine whether provision of intravenous dextrose, when compared to provision of parenteral nutrition, during therapeutic hypothermia, is associated with a difference in the incidence of blood stream infection. The investigators will use de-identified data held in an established research database called the National Neonatal Research Database (NNRD) and we will use the potential outcomes framework with application of propensity scoring to define matched subgroups for comparison.

Maintaining intraoperative normothermia and temperature measurement is a marker of quality of care. We know that intraoperative hypothermia is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events, infection of the surgical wound, a longer hospital stay, discomfort, hemorrhage and transfusion demand. Goals: To know the incidence of perioperative hypothermia in routine clinical practice in different surgical settings in a national reference university hospital. To establish if hypothermia is a risk factor for developing postoperative complications, focusing mainly on bleeding and infection of the surgical wound, in subjects aged between 18-65 years who come to the La Paz University Hospital for a surgical intervention in the Obstetrics / Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery Services. Hospital-based cohort study. A two-year follow-up of patients between 18 and 65 years will be carried out. Those patients with haemostasis disorders and infections in the preoperative period will be excluded. Using a questionnaire on sociodemographic variables, the baseline conditions of the patients will be evaluated for inclusion in the study. Subsequently, the temperature will be measured at the beginning and at the end of the surgery, as well as during admission to the Post Anesthesia Care Unit, where the temperature normalization time will be noted in the event of hypothermia. In retrospect, those variables corresponding to the late postoperative period will be evaluated and the telephone interview will be conducted to assess the quality of care received. All the data will be reflected in the collection booklet that we present in the annex. Patient demographics, case characteristics, and temperature records were summarized using descriptive statistics. Microsoft Excel (Professional Plus 2010, version 14); it was used for data management and processing, with Stata (version 14; StataCorp LP, College Station, TX) for graphical representations and statistical tests. A multivariate analysis of potential confounding factors will be performed. These results will serve to know the incidence of hypothermia according to the usual practice in a Spanish tertiary hospital and to establish recommendations in the management of intraoperative hypothermia and its prevention.

Preterm infants are at risk of hypothermia following delivery and in the first few hours of life. Hypothermia in extremely low birth weight infants' is an independent risk factor for death. These infants' are at additional risk of hypothermia when they undergo procedures such as central catheter insertion following admission. The investigators think that in extremely preterm infants, placing a peripheral intravenous cannula on admission to the NICU, instead of umbilical catheters (UVC and/or UAC), will increase the proportion of infants with a rectal temperature in the normal range at 2 hours of life.

Accidental perioperative hypothermia is a frequent complication of anesthesia that favors the occurrence of infections, bleeding and perioperative cardiovascular accidents, and is responsible for perioperative excess mortality. Although preventive measures are widely used, it remains very frequent in France. This observation led a group of experts to draft, under the aegis of the Société Française d'Anesthésie et de Réanimation (SFAR), several recommendations aimed at improving the prevention of perioperative accidental hypothermia. Perioperative hypothermia is defined as a core body temperature below 36.0 ° Celsius. This study aims to evaluate the impact of hypothermia prevention training on the proportion of hypothermic patients in the operating room.

A significant risk associated with hypothermia during exercise in a cold environment is the core temperature (T°core) afterdrop, which corresponds to a continuous fall in T°core during rewarming after hypothermia. However, the rate and predictors of the afterdrop are unclear, particularly during prolonged cold water swimming. The investigators propose to measure the changes in T°core during and after a cold water swim at 12.5-13°C qualifying for English Channel swim and to test the impact of anthropometric and swimming parameters on the duration of the T°core afterdrop. The hypotheses are that afterdrop is common during a prolonged cold water swimming event and that protective factors against T°core drop during cold water swimming (increased body fat and BMI) might, conversely, be associated with prolonged afterdrop.

The aim of the present study was to evaluate if the combination of heat and moisture exchanger with air forced warming blankets or warming intravenous fluids prevents intraoperative hypothermia in obese and non obese women under target controlled infusion-total intravenous anaesthesia (TCI-TIVA) during lower abdominal surgery.

The purpose of this study is to determine that the measurements of rectal and bladder temperature are correctly consistent with core temperature by using the pulmonary artery catheter during therapeutic hypothermia; rapid cooling, maintenance, and slow rewarming phase.