"Most patients just want to
wake up as warm as they
were when they were drifting
off to sleep," says Darren
Long, CRNA, MSN, of Avita
Health System in Galion,
Ohio.
If improving patient satis-
faction scores and delivering patient-centered care are high on the list of priori-
ties at your facility, practitioners we talked to say you should actively warm
every patient.
"From a 5-minute case to a 2-hour case and everything in between," says
Thomas W. Durick, MD, medical director and staff anesthesiologist at the Bay
Surgery Center in
Oakland, Calif., where
they keep the 2 ORs a
cool 60° F. "There's no
risk and all the benefits.
How can you not do it?"
Yes, it's comforting and
reassuring to be warm
when you're put to sleep
and such a relief not to
wake up shivering. But if
increasing patient satis-
faction isn't enough rea-
son for you to actively
warm, there are
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"Many of my patients have described
how their post-op shivering actually
hurt more than their surgical incisions."
— Darren Long, CRNA, MSN
