Journal of vascular surgery
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Hypothermia during elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: the high price of avoidable morbidity.
Adverse outcomes apparently associated with hypothermia led us to examine patients undergoing elective abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repairs to test the hypothesis that hypothermia (temperature less than 34.5 degrees C) is associated with increased morbidity and excess mortality rates. ⋯ After AAA repair, patients with hypothermia have multiple physiologic derangements associated with adverse outcomes. Although multiple etiologic factors are interacting, body temperature is one variable that should be controlled during aortic surgery.