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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) 

3. Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1 Antagonists Prevent Anesthesia-induced Hypothermia and Decrease Postincisional Opioid Dose Requirements in Rodents (Anesthesiology, 2017)

4. The importance of body temperature: An anesthesiologist's perspective (Temperature, 2016)

5. Mild perioperative hypothermia (NEJM, 1997)

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