Perioperative hypothermia: The delicate balance between heat gain and heat loss

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 683-685

  Li Bassi, G ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; CORE TEMPERATURE; EDITORIAL; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEAT LOSS; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; SURGICAL PATIENT; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOREGULATION;

BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 59849099102     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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