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Registration number
ACTRN12615000278538
Ethics application status
Approved
Date submitted
11/03/2015
Date registered
25/03/2015
Date last updated
7/03/2016
Type of registration
Retrospectively registered

Titles & IDs
Public title
A trial comparing body warming devices during surgery.
Scientific title
Comparison of Easywarm Blanket with Cocoon Forced Air Warming Blanket in Preventing Intraoperative Hypothermia in patients undergoing Elective Surgery in Supine position.
Secondary ID [1] 286329 0
Nil known
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Nil
Trial acronym
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Prevention of intraoperative hypothermia 294437 0
Condition category
Condition code
Anaesthesiology 294742 294742 0 0
Anaesthetics

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Patients will be randomised into control group ( Cocoon warming blanket group) and Easywarm blanket group. Control group will be warmed intraoperatively using Cocoon forced air warming blanket and Easywarm group will be warmed using Easywarm blankets.
Easywarm self-heating blanket consists of pockets of iron with other elements which when exposed to air leads to an exothermic reaction resulting from oxidation of iron. This heats the blanket to 44 degree celcius which lasts upto 10 hours.
It can be separated into two parts and used for both the upper and the lower body.
Intervention code [1] 291378 0
Treatment: Devices
Intervention code [2] 291452 0
Prevention
Comparator / control treatment
Using Cocoon forced air warming (FAW) blanket to warm patients intraoperatively which is the standard practice at Austin Hospital.
Cocoon FAW consists of an electrical heating unit with a fan which drives air into the blanket which is placed over upper and/or the lower body of the patient depending on the surgical location.
Temperature can be adjusted on the Cocoon blankets depending on the temperature of the patient.
Control group
Active

Outcomes
Primary outcome [1] 294505 0
Nasopharyngeal temperature at the end of the operation.
The nasopharyngeal temperature is measured using nasopharyngeal temperature probe.
Timepoint [1] 294505 0
Final temperature at completion of wound closure.
Secondary outcome [1] 313481 0
Average temperature throughout the case.
All temperature recording will be via the Nasopharyngeal temperature probe. Average temperature will be calculated by adding the temperatures and dividing by the number of temperature points recorded.
Timepoint [1] 313481 0
Baseline temperature (at completion of draping) then every hour and final temperature at wound closure.

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
Elective surgery (open or laparoscopic) in supine position which lasts for at least 1 hour requiring relaxant general anaesthesia.
Minimum age
18 Years
Maximum age
No limit
Sex
Both males and females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria
Sepsis, untreated thyroid dysfunction, fever, children, BMI>40, Severe peripheral vascular disease.

Study design
Purpose of the study
Prevention
Allocation to intervention
Randomised controlled trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Suitable patients will be selected by the research team. The anaesthetist involved will be approached and explained about the trial. The patients will then be randomised into one of the groups. Patients will be warmed using Cocoon forced air warming (FAW) blanket if selected into Control group or Easywarm blanket if selected into Easywarm group.
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
40 patients will be randomised to either Cocoon FAW blanket (Control group) or Easywarm blanket group in 1:1 ratio.
Randomisation will be by random selection of shuffled opaque envelopes containing group allocation.
Masking / blinding
Open (masking not used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?



Intervention assignment
Parallel
Other design features
Phase
Not Applicable
Type of endpoint/s
Efficacy
Statistical methods / analysis
Descriptive statistical terms will be used to describe the demographics of our study group. If data is normally distributed t-test will be used. If variables do not have a normal distribution then Wilcoxon signed rank test will be used. The p value, 95% confidence interval will be reported for normally distributed values. Median and interquartile range will be reported for non-parametric values.
Sample size calculation:
A significant difference between the two groups would be a temperature difference of 0.5 degree Celcius. With an alpha level (p value) of 0.05 and beta value of 0.8% an estimated standard deviation of 0.5 degrees and an estimated change in temperature of 0.5 degrees we would need a sample size of 31 patients.
To allow for data loss we aim to recruit 40 patients. Sample size is based on primary outcome only.

Recruitment
Recruitment status
Completed
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
3/02/2015
Actual
3/02/2015
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
31/07/2015
Actual
29/07/2015
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
Actual
Sample size
Target
40
Accrual to date
Final
39
Recruitment in Australia
Recruitment state(s)
VIC
Recruitment hospital [1] 3553 0
Austin Health - Austin Hospital - Heidelberg
Recruitment postcode(s) [1] 9358 0
3084 - Heidelberg

Funding & Sponsors
Funding source category [1] 290900 0
Hospital
Name [1] 290900 0
Department of Anaesthesia
Austin Hospital.
Country [1] 290900 0
Australia
Primary sponsor type
Hospital
Name
Department of Anaesthesia, Austin Hospital.
Address
Austin Hospital
145 Studley Road, Heidelberg, Vic 3084
Country
Australia
Secondary sponsor category [1] 289582 0
None
Name [1] 289582 0
Address [1] 289582 0
Country [1] 289582 0

Ethics approval
Ethics application status
Approved
Ethics committee name [1] 292503 0
Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC)
Ethics committee address [1] 292503 0
Office for Research, Austin Health
145 Studley Road, Heidelberg Vic 3084
Ethics committee country [1] 292503 0
Australia
Date submitted for ethics approval [1] 292503 0
Approval date [1] 292503 0
15/01/2015
Ethics approval number [1] 292503 0
LNR/14/Austin/611

Summary
Brief summary
Multiple clinical trials have shown that perioperative hypothermia affects multiple organ systems and leads to adverse surgical outcomes.
Cocoon Forced Air Warming (FAW) Blanket is one of the devices being used in Austin Hospital to minimise intraoperative hypothermia.
Our aim is to compare the efficacy of Easywarm self-heating blankets with Cocoon FAW blanket in preventing intraopearative hypothermia by conducting a small randomised control trial.
Patients undergoing relaxant general anaesthesia in supine position will be randomised into two groups. The control group will be warmed using Cocoon FAW and the other group will be warmed using Easywarm blanket.
Easywarm blanket has not yet been compared with the FAW devices. The information we obtain from the project will help us to choose the optimal warming device in clinical practice.
Trial website
Trial related presentations / publications
Public notes

Contacts
Principal investigator
Name 55630 0
A/Prof Philip Peyton
Address 55630 0
Austin Hospital,
145 Studley Road, Heidelberg, Vic 3084
Country 55630 0
Australia
Phone 55630 0
+61394965000
Fax 55630 0
+61394596421
Email 55630 0
[email protected]
Contact person for public queries
Name 55631 0
A/Prof Philip Peyton
Address 55631 0
Austin Hospital
145 Studley Road, Heidelberg, Vic 3084
Country 55631 0
Australia
Phone 55631 0
+61394965000
Fax 55631 0
+61394596421
Email 55631 0
[email protected]
Contact person for scientific queries
Name 55632 0
A/Prof Philip Peyton
Address 55632 0
Austin Hospital
145 Studley Road, Heidelberg, Vic 3084
Country 55632 0
Australia
Phone 55632 0
+61394965000
Fax 55632 0
+61394596421
Email 55632 0
phil.peyton@

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