title: Warmed intravenous infusion for controlling intraoperative hypothermia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to verify the effectiveness of warmed intravenous infusion for hypothermia prevention in patients during the intraoperative period.
  
  
  METHODS
  experimental, comparative, field, prospective and quantitative study undertaken at a federal public hospital. The sample was composed of 60 adults, included based on the criteria of axillary temperature between 36ºC and 37.1ºC and surgical abdominal access, divided into control and experimental groups, using the systematic probability sampling technique.
  
  
  RESULTS
  22 patients (73.4%) from both groups left the operating room with hypothermia, that is, with temperatures below 36ºC (p=1.0000). The operating room temperature when patients arrived and patients' temperature when they arrived at the operating room were statistically significant to affect the occurrence of hypothermia.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the planning and implementation of nursing interventions carried out by baccalaureate nurses are essential for preventing hypothermia and maintaining perioperative normothermia.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Escola de Enfermagem, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. almattia@uol.com.br
authors.forename: Ana Lúcia
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: De Mattia
authors.forename: Maria Helena
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Barbosa
authors.forename: João Paulo Aché
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: de Freitas Filho
authors.forename: Adelaide De Mattia
authors.initials: Ade M
authors.lastname: Rocha
authors.forename: Nathália Haib Costa
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Pereira
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007035:Hypothermia / Q000517:prevention & control*; D007262:Infusions, Intravenous; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D013696:Temperature; D055815:Young Adult