Thermal care in the perioperative period

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-62

  Kurz, Andrea ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

anesthesia, general; anesthesis regional; complications; heat; shivering; surgery; sweating; temperature; thermoregulation; vasoconstriction

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ATRACURIUM; BUSPIRONE; CLONIDINE; DESFLURANE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; HALOTHANE; ISOFLURANE; KETANSERIN; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; NEFOPAM; NEOSTIGMINE; OPIATE; PANCURONIUM; PETHIDINE; PHYSOSTIGMINE; PROPOFOL; TRAMADOL; VECURONIUM;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AORTA ANEURYSM; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BODY TEMPERATURE MONITORING; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PROTECTION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORE TEMPERATURE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEAT LOSS; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; HYPOTHERMIA; INCIDENCE; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; MINIMUM LUNG ALVEOLUS CONCENTRATION; NAUSEA; NERVE BLOCK; NONHUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETER; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; SEDATION; SHIVERING; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SWEATING; THERMOREGULATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREMOR; VASOCONSTRICTION; WARMING; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

ANESTHESIA; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; SHIVERING; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 40949163338     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2007.10.004     Document Type: Review

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