Evaluate the Use of Plastic Bags in Preventing and Treating Hypothermia in Neonates

PHASE4CompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

106

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

August 31, 2011

Primary Completion Date

March 31, 2012

Study Completion Date

December 31, 2012

Conditions
Hypothermia, Newborn
Interventions
PROCEDURE

Resuscitation and post resuscitation care with plastic bag

Infant will be resuscitated and placed in a plastic bag up to his/her neck and around the back of his head (not covering the face) in the delivery room and taken to the nursery. The infant will remain in the plastic bag until first axillary temperature remains stable at 36.5-37.5 degrees Celsius. Expected length of time approximately one hour.

PROCEDURE

Resuscitation- no plastic bag for temperature regulation

Infant will be resuscitated in the delivery room and taken to the nursery. The infant will be observed per unit standard until first axillary temperature remains stable at 36.5-37.5 degrees Celsius. Expected length of time approximately one hour.

Trial Locations (1)

Unknown

University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka

All Listed Sponsors
lead

University of Alabama at Birmingham

OTHER

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