Open AccessAre active warming measures required during paediatric cleft surgeries?
Author(s) -
Sunil Rajan,
Kusuma Ramachandra Halemani,
Nitu Puthenveettil,
Ramasubramanian Baalachandran,
Priyanka Gotluru,
Jerry Paul
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
indian journal of anaesthesia/indian journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 0976-2817
pISSN - 0019-5049
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5049.118565
Subject(s) - medicine , hyperthermia , hypothermia , anesthesia , warming up , surgery , physical therapy
During paediatric cleft surgeries intraoperative heat loss is minimal and hence undertaking all possible precautions available to prevent hypothermia and use of active warming measures may result in development of hyperthermia. This study aims to determine whether there will be hyperthermia on active warming and hypothermia if no active warming measures are undertaken. The rate of intraoperative temperature changes with and without active warming was also noted.