• Int J Trauma Nurs · Jan 1995

    Review

    Hypothermia in trauma: the nurse's role in recognition, prevention, and management.

    • S K Sedlak.
    • St. Mary's Regional Medical Center, Reno, Nevada, USA.
    • Int J Trauma Nurs. 1995 Jan 1;1(1):19-26.

    AbstractTrauma patients are at risk for a number of complications that can jeopardize their ability to withstand the effects of injury. A serious and common problem is hypothermia, which can be caused or exacerbated by interventions used in resuscitation, surgery, and postoperative care. The trauma nurse has a primary responsibility in recognizing and beginning therapy to correct this potentially lethal condition. Many nursing measures can be modified to help the patient retain body heat or provide an exogenous source of warmth.

      Pubmed     Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…