Mild intraoperative hypothermia prolongs postanesthetic recovery

Anesthesiology

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1318-1323

  Lenhardt, Rainer ^a   Marker, Elvine ^b   Goll, Veronika ^b   Tschernich, Heinz ^b   Kurz, Andrea ^b   Sessler, Daniel I ^a   Narzt, Edith ^b   Lackner, Franz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California ^*

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Core; Duration; Hypothermia; Po stanesthesia care; Recovery; Temperature; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; ISOFLURANE; NITROUS OXIDE; PIRITRAMIDE;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; COST CONTROL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANESTHESIA RECOVERY PERIOD; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REWARMING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031469106     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199712000-00009     Document Type: Article

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