• J Trauma Nurs · Oct 1998

    Adherence to standards of care and implications of body temperature measurement in trauma patients.

    • W S Shreve.
    • St Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Toledo, OH, USA.
    • J Trauma Nurs. 1998 Oct 1; 5 (4): 85-91; quiz 108-9.

    PurposeTo identify adherence to the standard that trauma patients have body temperature (T) recorded, range-of-temperature measurements, and the incidence of hypothermia recorded; and to examine the relationship between (T) and Injury Severity Score (ISS).MethodsA retrospective review of the records of 60 trauma patients was conducted.FindingsForty percent of the patient records had temperatures recorded with values that ranged from (T) 87-100.6 degrees F; 33% of the patients had hypothermia as defined by a temperature of 96.6 degrees F or less. There appeared to be a significant inverse relationship between (T) and ISS.ConclusionsBased on the data, temperature was recorded in only 40% of the cases sampled. Adherence to the standard of measuring and recording a value was only intermittently followed. Nursing personnel should be educated to appreciate the potential for unsuspected hypothermia and to respond by following the standards of care.

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