• AORN journal · May 2006

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    The effect of preoperative warming on patients' postoperative temperatures.

    • Shauna Cooper.
    • Anderson Hospital, Maryville, IL, USA.
    • AORN J. 2006 May 1;83(5):1073-6, 1079-84; quiz 1085-8.

    AbstractMany perioperative clinicians encounter difficulty in preventing hypothermia in surgical patients. One intervention to prevent perioperative hypothermia is the use of forced-air warming. Although forced-air warming is used most frequently in the intraoperative area, prewarming patients with forced-air warming systems before induction of anesthesia may be enough to prevent hypothermia throughout the surgical procedure, allowing patients to arrive in the postanesthesia care unit in a normothermic state. A review of the literature on preoperative forced-air warming is provided, and the effect of prewarming on postoperative patient temperatures is discussed.

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