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A novel thermal compression device for perioperative warming: a randomized trial for feasibility and efficacy

BACKGROUND: Inadvertent perioperative hypothermia (IPH) leads to surgical complications and increases length of stay. IPH rates are high with the current standard of care, forced air warming (FAW). Our hypothesis is that a prototype thermal compression device that heats the popliteal fossa and soles...

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Autores principales: Santa Maria, Peter Luke, Santa Maria, Chloe, Eisenried, Andreas, Velasquez, Nathalia, Kannard, Brian Thomas, Ramani, Abhinav, Kahn, David Mark, Wheeler, Amanda Jane, Brock-Utne, John Gerhard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5553896/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28800725
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-017-0395-2