Temperature readings from at least one phase of care were missing
for 242 patients, so they weren't included in the final results, which
showed that of the remaining 595 patients, 549 (92%) maintained nor-
mothermia and 46 (8%) experienced a hypothermic event. Our find-
ings fell within the reported 4% to 9% range of patients who typically
experience hypothermia. I expected our rate would be less, because
some of our minor procedures are over in minutes.
We found that each of the warming options was equally effective in
maintaining normothermia. Women were 0.46 times less likely than
men to remain normothermic, but the difference was not statistically
significant. In addition, there was no association between pre-warm-
ing and normothermia. Surprisingly, we also couldn't identify a statis-
tically significant predictor of hypothermia. At first we assessed (low)
body-mass index and
age (the elderly and
the very young), 2
commonly associated
risk factors, but saw
no correlation. That
was hard for me to
accept, so we added
more data and
crunched the num-
bers to assess the
potential impact of
ASA status, time in
pre-op, pre-warming,
pre-warming dura-
tion, case duration
and procedure type.
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