Energy drinks or warming mattress: which keeps C-Section moms warmer?
NCT ID NCT06017076
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tested whether drinking an energy drink before a planned C-section keeps the mother as warm as using a warming mattress during surgery. 302 women having elective C-sections took part. The goal was to see which method better prevents a drop in body temperature during the procedure.
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
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- Participants
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302 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Sep 2023
- Finished
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Nov 2025
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Female participants only
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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Inclusion Criteria: * Women pregnant with a single fetus; * American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status II; * Willingness to undergo elective cesarean delivery under combined spinal-epidural anesthesia; * A body mass index (BMI) \< 35 kg·m-2; * A gestational age of 38-40 weeks. Exclusion Criteria: * Contraindications for combined spinal-epidural anesthesia; * A diagnosis of delayed gastric emptying, hyperemesis gravidarum until late pregnancy, or consumption of drugs that affect gastrointestinal motility within 3 days before surgery; * Preoperative body temperature \>38°C or \<36°C or the use of drugs that affect body temperature; * Pregnancy combined with diabetes, hypertension, or metabolic disorders (eg, hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism); * Ear diseases (eg, otitis media, tympanic membrane perforation, etc) affecting measurement of ear temperature; * Intraoperative malfunction of the warming blanket; * Patients who were simultaneously undergoing other operations (eg, removal of uterine fibroids and ovarian cysts) or had a surgical time \>1.5 hours; * Patients with blood transfusion or autologous blood transfusion intraoperatively; * Patients who did not receive the anesthetic specified in the protocol; * Patients who failed to drink 125ml energy drinks before surgery.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Department of Anesthesiology, Peking University People's Hospital, 11 Xizhimen South Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Beijing, Beijing Municipality, 100000, China
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