Thermal management during anaesthesia and thermoregulation standards for the prevention of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 659-668

  Torossian, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

active patient warming; normal body temperature; outcome evaluation; perioperative hypothermia; pre warming; temperature monitoring

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; BLADDER; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BODY TEMPERATURE; CORE TEMPERATURE; DEVICE; ESOPHAGUS; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LENGTH OF STAY; NASOPHARYNX; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SKIN SURFACE; STANDARD; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOREGULATION; WARMING;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS;

EID: 56049125461     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2008.07.006     Document Type: Review

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