Perioperative hypothermia in the high-risk surgical patient

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 485-498

  Leslie, Kate ^a   Sessler, Daniel I ^b  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia: general, epidural, spinal; Complications: myocardial ischaemia, wound infection, coagulopathy; Economics: recovery room; Fluid warming; Forced air warming; Shivering; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ATRACURIUM; CATECHOLAMINE; CLONIDINE; CYTOKINE; INFUSION FLUID; KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR; KETANSERIN; NIFEDIPINE; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; PETHIDINE; PHYSOSTIGMINE; PROPOFOL; SUFENTANIL; VASODILATOR AGENT; VECURONIUM;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PROTECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COOLING; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEART DISEASE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEAT LOSS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SHIVERING; SURGICAL PATIENT; THERMOREGULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WARMING; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; WOUND INFECTION; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEATING; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SURGERY;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, GENERAL; ANIMALS; HEATING; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK FACTORS; SHIVERING; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 1542753652     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1521-6896(03)00049-1     Document Type: Review

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