4 Awareness and Education Greater awareness among healthcare professionals regarding the adverse effects of perioperative hypothermia and related complications is encouraging wider adoption of ...

Decreased Oxygen Consumption VO 2 decreases under conditions of hypothermia and anesthesia. Hypothermia less than 35°C is associated with clotting disorders because of decreased enzymatic activity.

Key takeaways: A warm air blanket may be preferred to a heated mattress during arthroplasty surgery. Patients treated with a warm air blanket were at decreased risk for perioperative hypothermia ...

Most patients undergoing surgery without deliberate perioperative warming experience at least mild hypothermia, which is thought to worsen risk for cardiac events and surgical-site infection and ...