Nurses' Knowledge of Inadvertent Hypothermia

AORN Journal

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Hegarty, Josephine ^a   Walsh, Ella ^a   Burton, Aileen ^a   Murphy, Sheila ^a   O'gorman, Fionuala ^a   McPolin, Gráinne ^a  

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Author keywords

inadvertent hypothermia; normothermia; practice guidelines

Indexed keywords

EID: 63549149595     PISSN: 00012092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aorn.2008.09.003     Document Type: Article

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