Methods of patient warming during abdominal surgery.

BACKGROUND: Keeping abdominal surgery patients warm is common and warming methods are needed in power outages during natural disasters. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of low-cost, low-power warming methods for maintaining normothermia in abdominal surgery patients. METHODS: Patients (n = 160) sch...

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Main Authors: Li Shao, Hong Zheng, Feng-Ju Jia, Hui-Qin Wang, Li Liu, Qi Sun, Meng-Ying An, Xiu-Hua Zhang, Hao Wen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3394771?pdf=render