An interventional study of Exposure to cold environmental temperature (-20°C) in Body Temperature and Hypothermia, sponsored by Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine. Completed at 1 site in Italy. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2013-02-15.
Sponsored by Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine · Not applicable, Interventional, and Diagnostic
Accurate measurement of core body temperature at the scene of an accident is critical for both diagnosis and treatment/triage decisions for hypothermic patients. Measurement in the lower third of the oesophagus is considered the gold standard of CT reading, but invasive and hardly applicable with a conscious patient. Tympanic membrane sensors for CT reading have been widely tested by may be unreliable in extreme environmental temperatures. Similarly, the Double Sensor device is a non-invasive device and is promising for prehospital use but has not been sufficiently verified under very cold and hot environmental conditions. Furthermore, comparisons of different non-invasive methods with oesophageal measurement in extreme conditions are lacking. The objective of these studies is to compare different techniques of core body temperature measurement with exposure to cold and hot environments.
499 studies on the registry are indexed under Hypothermia; 54 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 32 is below the median of 80 across 351 interventional studies indexed under Hypothermia.
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Exclusion Criteria:
temperature is measured in cold (-20°C) environment first, and warm (23°C) environment afterwards
Other: Exposure to cold environmental temperature (-20°C)
temperature is measured in warm (23°C) environment first, and cold (-20°C) environment afterwards
Other: Exposure to cold environmental temperature (-20°C)
Difference between oesophageal and epitympanic temperature
Time frame: 10 min measurment at +20 °C followed by 10 min measurment at -20 °C
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