Inadvertent hypothermia: a literature review.
While working on my first placement in the operating department recovery room, I was surprised by the frequency of patients coming into recovery with mild hypothermia, having taken their temperature on arrival. In many cases the patient did not arrive with a forced-air warming blanket, or any device other than a cotton blanket. It seemed to me that it would be more efficient, kinder and possibly more cost-effective to takesteps to prevent perioperative hypothermia rather than to treat the consequences.
Nunney
Robert
R
Edge Hill University, University Hospial South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust. robertnunney@gmail.com
D006358:Hot Temperature; D006801:Humans; D007035:Hypothermia / Q000209:etiology / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control; D013527:Perioperative Nursing