Preventing perioperative hypothermia is clinically feasible and cost effective
Inadvertent perioperative hypothermia is associated with serious adverse surgical outcomes including increased infection rates, morbid cardiac events and surgical bleeding. Surgical patients are particularly at risk of hypothermia because of ‘anaesthetic-induced impairment of thermoregulatory contr...
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| Language: | English |
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Australian College of Perioperative Nurses
2019-03-01
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| Series: | Journal of Perioperative Nursing |
| Online Access: | https://journal.acorn.org.au/index.php/jpn/article/view/252 |
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