Conductive warming and insulation reduces perioperative hypothermia

Central European Journal of Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 284-289

  Perl, Thorsten ^a   Rhenius, Anke ^a   Eich, Christoph B ^b   Quintel, Michael ^a   Heise, Daniel ^a   Bräuer, Anselm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b KINDERKRANKENHAUS AUF DER BULT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conductive warming; Head and neck surgery; Insulation; Oesophageal temperature; Perioperative hypothermia; Randomised controlled trial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDUCTIVE WARMING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INSULATION; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PERIOPERATIVE HYPOTHERMIA; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860740467     PISSN: 18951058     EISSN: 16443640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11536-011-0166-2     Document Type: Article

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