Temperature and Pain in Laparoscopy

Launched by RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY · May 19, 2016

Keywords

ClinConnect Summary

During the first 30 to 40 minutes of anaesthesia, a patient's temperature can drop to below 35.0°C. Reasons for this include loss of the behavioural response to cold and the impairment of thermoregulatory heat-preserving mechanisms under general or regional anaesthesia, anaesthesia-induced peripheral vasodilation, the use of cold dry insufflation gases. For these reasons, institutions employ a range of techniques to prevent hypothermia, including forced air warming (peri-operatively), use of warmed intravenous fluids, temperature monitoring and control of room temperature. Despite these int...

Gender

FEMALE

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Patients aged 18 years or above and aged under 70 years
• • Written informed consent prior to study participation
• • Patients admitted to hospital for laparoscopic surgery with a planned duration of more than 1 hour; if there is an open component to the surgery then this should be discussed, in terms of the length of the laparoscopic component
• • BMI \<35
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Pregnancy or women without sufficient contraception
• • Women, who are breastfeeding
• • Alcohol or drug abuse
• • Expected non-compliance
• • Patients unwilling or unable to give informed consent, patients with limited ability to comply with instructions for this study
• • Participation on another interventional study within the last 3 months
• • Subjects who are committed to an institution and/or penitentiary by judicial or official order
• • Employees of the investigator cooperation companies