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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2019 Jan-Feb;69(1):13-19.
doi: 10.1016/j.bjan.2018.09.009. Epub 2018 Nov 15.

[The effects of crystalloid warming on maternal body temperature and fetal outcomes: a randomized controlled trial]

[Article in Portuguese]
Mehmet Cantürk  1 , Fusun Karbancioglu Cantürk  2 , Nazan Kocaoğlu  3 , Meltem Hakki  3
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Randomized Controlled Trial

[The effects of crystalloid warming on maternal body temperature and fetal outcomes: a randomized controlled trial]

[Article in Portuguese]
Mehmet Cantürk et al. Braz J Anesthesiol. 2019 Jan-Feb.

Abstract

Background and objectives: Hypothermia occurs in about 60% of patients under anesthesia and is generally not managed properly during short lasting surgical procedures. Hypothermia is associated with adverse clinical outcomes. The current study is designed to assess the effects of crystalloid warming on maternal and fetal outcomes in patients undergoing elective cesarean section with spinal anesthesia.

Methods: In this prospective randomized controlled trial, sixty parturients scheduled for elective cesarean section with spinal anesthesia were randomly allocated to receive crystalloid at room temperature or warmed at 37 °C. Spinal anesthesia was performed at L3–L4 interspace with 10 mg of hyperbaric bupivacaine without adding opioids. Core temperature, shivering, and hemodynamic parameters were measured every minute until 10th minute and 5-min intervals until the end of operation. The primary outcome was maternal core temperature at the end of cesarean section.

Results: There was no difference for baseline tympanic temperature measurements but the difference was significant at the end of the operation (p = 0.004). Core temperature was 36.8 ± 0.5 °C at baseline and decreased to 36.3 ± 0.5 °C for isothermic warmed crystalloid group and baseline tympanic core temperature was 36.9 ± 0.4 °C and decreased to 35.8 ± 0.7 °C for room temperature group at the end of the operation. Shivering was observed in 43.3% in the control group. Hemodynamic parameter changes and demographic data were not significant between groups.

Conclusions: Isothermic warming crystalloid prevents the decrease in core temperature during cesarean section with spinal anesthesia in full-term parturients. Fetal Apgar scores at first and fifth minute are higher with isothermic warming.

Keywords: Apgar score; Aquecimento; Cesarean section; Cesariana; Core temperature; Cristaloides; Crystalloids; Escore de Apgar; Raquianestesia; Shivering; Spinal anesthesia; Temperatura central; Tremor; Warming.

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Core body temperature at the end of surgery between groups.
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