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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Main Author: Nick Ralph
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Australian College of Perioperative Nurses 2019-03-01
Series:Journal of Perioperative Nursing
Online Access:https://journal.acorn.org.au/index.php/jpn/article/view/252
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