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

Status: Recruiting

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Intervention Type: Other

Study Type: Interventional

Study Phase: Not Applicable

SUMMARY

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

Participation Requirements

Sex: All

Minimum Age: 18

Healthy Volunteers: f

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• The following criteria will be included in the sample:

• 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.

• Patients who did not require mechanical ventilation.

• Patients who did not have any illness that would impair thermoregulation (such as head trauma or hypothalamic damage).

• • Patients who were not taking medications that would affect thermoregulation, such as vasodilators.

• Patients who did not have peripheral circulation problems.

• Patients who were not alcohol or substance abusers.

• Patients who did not have mental retardation.

• Patients who were conscious and oriented to person, time, and place.

• Patients who could speak Turkish.

• Patients who did not have any auditory or visual impairments.

• Patients who volunteered for the study.

Locations

Other Locations

Turkey

Adana City Training and Research Hospital

RECRUITING

Adana

Contact Information

Primary

Cansel Bozer Uludağ, expert

cansel9815@gmail.com

+905434332624

Time Frame

Start Date: 2025-04-20

Estimated Completion Date: 2025-10-30

Participants

Target number of participants: 70

Treatments

No_intervention: no intervention group

In the preoperative period, patients with a body temperature of 36°C-37°C one hour before surgery will be included in the sample. Postoperatively, upon arrival from the operating room to the intensive care unit, which has a humidity range of 55%-65% and a temperature range of 22°C-25°C, will be safely transferred to a single-bed room, monitored, and wiped down. After ensuring personal hygiene, the patient will be covered with a 160x220cm cotton quilt. The heating device hose will be placed inside the bed from the side of the bed. The electric heater will be operated at 38°C (Medium) for 120 minutes, 15 cm from the patient's body. Routine treatment and care will then be administered. Vital signs, shivering level, and temperature perception will be recorded on the patient's follow-up form at 0, 15, 30, 45, 60, 90, and 120 minutes postoperatively.

Experimental: intervention group

In the preoperative period, patients with a body temperature of 36°C to 37°C one hour before surgery will be included in the sample. In the postoperative period, the intensive care room, which has a routine humidity range of 55%-65% and a temperature of 22°C to 25°C, will be heated to the upper limit of the intensive care room temperature range, 27°C, with an electric heater half an hour before the operation. After ensuring personal hygiene, the patient will be safely transferred to the bed in the single room, monitored, and wiped down. After ensuring personal hygiene, the patient will be covered with a 160x220cm cotton quilt. The heating device hose will be placed inside the bed from the edge of the bed. The electric heater will be operated at 38°C (Medium Level) for 120 minutes, 15cm from the patient's body. Routine treatment and maintenance will be administered. Then, the vital signs, pain, shivering level, and temperature perception will be recorded in the patient follow-up form a

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