The Prevalence and Effect of Prewarming on Unintentional Perioperative Hypothermia in Patients Undergoing Major Abdominal Surgery Walking to the Operating Room: A Non-randomized Prospective Intervention Study
The prewarming method combined with peroperative active warming with forced-air warming in patients walking to the OR reduces the drop in core temperature and the prevalence of unintentional perioperative hypothermia throughout the perioperative period.
Authors
- Dorthe Hasfeldt
- Charlotte Rosenkilde
- Hanne Irene Jensen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9323-4284)
Institutions
- Odense University Hospital (DK)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing
- Published
- 2025-06-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jopan.2025.01.021
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Thermal Regulation in Medicine
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.09