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Effects of Comfort Warming on Preoperative Patients
Author(s) -
Wagner Doreen,
Byrne Michelle,
Kolcaba Katharine
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)63920-3
Subject(s) - anxiety , thermal comfort , medicine , psychological intervention , warming up , global warming , physical therapy , climate change , nursing , meteorology , psychiatry , physics , ecology , biology
• THERMAL COMFORT IS ONE DIMENSION of overall patient comfort, and it usually is addressed by covering the patient with warmed cotton blankets. • WARMING HELPS A PATIENT maintain normothermia and appears to decrease patient anxiety. • AN STUDY WAS CONDUCTED in a preoperative setting to compare the effects of preoperative warming with warmed cotton blankets versus patient‐controlled warming gowns on patients' perceptions of thermal comfort and anxiety. • BOTH WARMING INTERVENTIONS had a positive effect on patients' thermal comfort and sense of well‐being. Patients who used the patient‐controlled warming gown also experienced a significant reduction in preoperative anxiety. AORN J 84 (September 2006) 427‐448. © AORN, Inc, 2006.