[Prewarming according to the AWMF S3 guidelines on preventing inadvertant perioperative hypothermia 2014 : Retrospective analysis of 7786 patients].

CONCLUSION: Prewarming, as recommended in the AWMF guidelines, resulted in a significant and clinically relevant reduction in the incidence of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia; therefore, prewarming can still be regarded as an effective method to avoid perioperative hypothermia. Hypothermia rates of 15.8% intraoperatively and 5.1% postoperatively can be achieved in clinical practice, when prewarming is performed in addition to intraoperative warming in the anesthesia induction room directly before the start of surgical procedures. PMID: 29159490 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Der Anaesthesist - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tags: Anaesthesist Source Type: research