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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.