title: A randomised controlled trial of the resistive heating blanket versus the convective warming system for preventing hypothermia during major abdominal surgery.
abstract: We compared resistive heating (RH) and upper-body convective warming (CW) in 70 patients (RH 33, CW 31, 6 excluded) undergoing major abdominal surgery. The effect of RH was not inferior to that of CW for the time-weighted average core temperature, and the lower limit of 95% CW was greater than -0.5 degrees C. Resistive heating showed no inferiority in maintaining core temperature compared with convective warming.
authors.affiliation: Division of Health Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, 1-7 Yamadaoka Suita, Osaka, Japan. noritana@sahs.med.osaka-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Noriyoshi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Yuko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ohno
authors.forename: Megumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hori
authors.forename: Mai
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Utada
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Toshiyasu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Suzuki
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D006979:Hyperthermia, Induced / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007035:Hypothermia / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative; D006113:United Kingdom