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Manager's Guide to Patient-Centered Care - January 2015

Outpatient Surgery Magazine, providing current information on Surgical Services, Surgical Facility Administration, Outpatient Surgery News and Trends, OR Excellence and more.

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Y ou value patient warming for its clinical utility, for its ability to maintain core temperature and reduce perioperative hypothermia. Your patients? They probably don't 4 0 S U P P L E M E N T T O O U T PAT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E January 2015 "Why Do You Keep It So Cold in Here?" a warm patient is a happy — and healthy — patient. Dan O'Connor | Editor-in-Chief Pamela Bevelhymer, RN, BSN z SIGH AND SMILE Nothing impacts a patient's emotional and physical well being like being kept warm. know what those words mean, much less care. Not when it's freezing cold in the OR and they're shivering and their teeth are chattering. That sigh of relief you hear and that smile you see when you actively warm them is all you need to know that you've made a most lasting and positive impression on their emo- tional and physical well-being. When I was cold, you warmed me.

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