The Effect of Heating the Intensive Care Room in the Early Postoperative Period on Patient Outcomes

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorCukurova University

About this trial

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of heating the intensive care room in the early postoperative period on patient outcomes.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Patients who underwent elective abdominal surgery and were admitted to intensive care after surgery.

Patients aged 18 and over.

Patients whose body temperature on the morning of surgery was neither below 36°C nor above 37.5°C.

Patients who did not have a pacemaker, dementia, advanced spasticity, muscle atrophy, peripheral lesions, osteoporosis, skin irritation, diabetes, hypertension, or obesity.

Disqualifiers

Patients who do not meet the sampling criteria, who develop postoperative complications (bleeding, intubation, stenosis, necrosis, ileus, dermatitis, parastomal herniation, etc.), and whose relatives do not consent to the study will not be included in the study.

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • The rooms of the intervention group patients will be heated before they come to intensive care and the temperature of the room will be increased.

Treatment groups

70 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups

Sponsors and collaborators