Quantitative Heat Loss With Laminar Air Flow

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT01564212

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Brief summary

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With approval of the IRB at the Cleveland Clinic and written informed consent, the investigators propose to study up to 20 healthy volunteers in the protocol below as this will allow for drop-outs. As the investigators believe that 10 volunteers will provide sufficient power to detect clinically-meaningful differences between laminar air flow treatments. The study has been designed to find out whether heat loss increases significantly in laminar air flow operating rooms. Furthermore the investigators will find out whether active warming minimizes this heat loss. Increased heat loss increases the amount of perioperative hypothermia. It has been shown that perioperative hypothermia is associated with severe complications such as an increased incidence of surgical wound infections. On the other hand laminar air flow is explicitly used to decrease air-borne infections. Our study results will help to optimize thermal management of orthopedic patients.

Study identification

NCT ID: NCT01564212
Recruitment status: Completed
Study type: Interventional
Phase: Not applicable
Lead sponsor: The Cleveland Clinic; Other
Enrollment: 10 participants

Conditions and interventions

Conditions

Healthy

Interventions

standard airflow with forced air warming. Other
laminar airflow with surgical drapes Other
laminar airflow with forced air warming Other
standard airflow with surgical drapes Other

Other

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range: 18 Years to 45 Years
Sex: All
Healthy volunteers: Accepts healthy volunteers

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Study timeline

Start date: Feb 29, 2012
Primary completion: Jan 31, 2017
Completion: Feb 22, 2017
Last update posted: Jan 8, 2018

2012 – 2017

United States locations

U.S. sites: 1
U.S. states: 1
U.S. cities: 1

Facility	City	State	ZIP	Site status
Cleveland Clinic Foundation	Cleveland	Ohio	44195	—

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