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The effect of preoperative warming on patients' postoperative temperatures
Author(s) -
Cooper Shauna
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/s0001-2092(06)60118-x
Subject(s) - hypothermia , perioperative , medicine , anesthesia , perioperative nursing , intervention (counseling) , intensive care medicine , nursing
• MANY 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. AORN J 83 (May 2006) 1074–1084.