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A Pharmacological Way to Treat Perioperative Hypothermia
Surgical Infection
Increased Bleeding
Poor Wound Healing
Perioperative hypothermia can increase surgical site infections leading to longer hospital stays and increased comorbidities
Intraoperative hypothermia can increase blood loss and the use of expensive blood products and associated complications
Peioperative hypothermia can impair wound healing resulting in costly readmissions
Relevant references:
1. The opioid crisis and … reconsidering the use of drugs that affect body temperature (Temperature, 2018)
2. Turning up the heat on surgical cold (Temperature, 2017)
4. The importance of body temperature: An anesthesiologist's perspective (Temperature, 2016)
5. Mild perioperative hypothermia (NEJM, 1997)