Comparison of forced-air warming and resistive heating

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 687-690

  Perl, T ^a   Flother L ^b   Weyland, W ^c   Quintel, M ^a   Brauer A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Academic Teaching of the Wilhelms University   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Heating; Hypothermia; Prevention and control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHERMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN TEMPERATURE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WARMING;

ADULT; AIR; HEATING; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 59849103423     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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