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Cooling vest improves surgeons' thermal comfort without affecting cognitive performance: a randomised cross-over trial.
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Academic Journal
Author
Byrne JE; Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA jeb241@case.edu.; Rodriguez-Patarroyo FA; Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.; Mascha EJ; Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.; Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.; Han Y; Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.; Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.; Bravo M; Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.; Bloomfield MR; Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.; Rao SM; Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.; Sessler DI; Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
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Publisher: BMJ Pub. Group Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 9422759 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1470-7926 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 13510711 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Occup Environ Med Subsets: MEDLINE
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Language
English
Abstract
Objectives: Surgeons become uncomfortable while performing surgery because heat transfer and evaporative cooling are restricted by insulating surgical gowns. Consequently, perceptions of thermal discomfort during surgery may impair cognitive performance. We, therefore, aimed to evaluate surgeons' thermal comfort, cognitive performance, core and mean skin temperatures, perceptions of sweat-soaked clothing, fatigue and exertion with and without a CoolSource cooling vest (Cardinal Health, Dublin, Ohio, USA).
Methods: Thirty orthopaedic surgeons participated in a randomised cross-over trial, each performing four total-joint arthroplasties with randomisation to one of four treatment sequences. The effects of cooling versus no cooling were measured using a repeated-measures linear model accounting for within-subject correlations.
Results: The cooling vest improved thermal comfort by a mean (95% CI) of -2.1 (-2.7 to -1.6) points on a 0-10 scale, p<0.001, with no evidence of treatment-by-period interaction (p=0.94). In contrast, cooling had no perceptible effect on cognition, with an estimated mean difference (95% CI) in Cleveland Clinic Cognitive Battery (C3B) Processing Speed Test score of 0.03 (95% CI -2.44 to 2.51), p=0.98, or in C3B Visual Memory Test score with difference of 0.88 (95% CI -2.25 to 4.01), p=0.57. Core temperature was not lower with the cooling vest, with mean difference (95% CI) of -0.13 (-0.33°C to 0.07°C), p=0.19, while mean skin temperature was lower, with mean difference of -0.23 (95% CI -0.40°C to -0.06°C) lower, p=0.011. The cooling vest significantly reduced surgeons' perceptions of sweat-soaked clothing, fatigue and exertion.
Conclusions: A cooling vest worn during surgery lowered core and skin temperatures, improved thermal comfort, and decreased perceptions of sweating and fatigue, but did not improve cognition. Thermal discomfort during major orthopaedic surgery is thus largely preventable, but cooling does not affect cognition.
Trial Registration Number: NCT04511208.
Competing Interests: Competing interests: SMR receives royalties regarding the C3B software. JEB receives royalties regarding the CoolSource Cooling system and as a co-principal investigator, an investigator initiated study grant was received from Cardinal Health to study the CoolSource Cooling System. No other authors have any competing interests.
(© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.)
Methods: Thirty orthopaedic surgeons participated in a randomised cross-over trial, each performing four total-joint arthroplasties with randomisation to one of four treatment sequences. The effects of cooling versus no cooling were measured using a repeated-measures linear model accounting for within-subject correlations.
Results: The cooling vest improved thermal comfort by a mean (95% CI) of -2.1 (-2.7 to -1.6) points on a 0-10 scale, p<0.001, with no evidence of treatment-by-period interaction (p=0.94). In contrast, cooling had no perceptible effect on cognition, with an estimated mean difference (95% CI) in Cleveland Clinic Cognitive Battery (C3B) Processing Speed Test score of 0.03 (95% CI -2.44 to 2.51), p=0.98, or in C3B Visual Memory Test score with difference of 0.88 (95% CI -2.25 to 4.01), p=0.57. Core temperature was not lower with the cooling vest, with mean difference (95% CI) of -0.13 (-0.33°C to 0.07°C), p=0.19, while mean skin temperature was lower, with mean difference of -0.23 (95% CI -0.40°C to -0.06°C) lower, p=0.011. The cooling vest significantly reduced surgeons' perceptions of sweat-soaked clothing, fatigue and exertion.
Conclusions: A cooling vest worn during surgery lowered core and skin temperatures, improved thermal comfort, and decreased perceptions of sweating and fatigue, but did not improve cognition. Thermal discomfort during major orthopaedic surgery is thus largely preventable, but cooling does not affect cognition.
Trial Registration Number: NCT04511208.
Competing Interests: Competing interests: SMR receives royalties regarding the C3B software. JEB receives royalties regarding the CoolSource Cooling system and as a co-principal investigator, an investigator initiated study grant was received from Cardinal Health to study the CoolSource Cooling System. No other authors have any competing interests.
(© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.)