Association between perioperative hypothermia and patient outcomes after thoracic surgery: A single center retrospective analysis.

ABSTRACT: Hypothermia due to anaesthetic-induced impairment of thermoregulatory control and exposure to a cool environment is common in surgical patients. Peripheral vasodilation due to neuroaxial blockade may aggravate hypothermia. There is few data on perioperative hypothermia in patients undergoing thoracic surgery under combined general and regional anesthesia. We reviewed all thoracic surgical patients between 2006 and 2011 to determine the incidence and extent of hypothermia with or without an epidural anesthesia and evaluated its effect.Around 339 patients underwent lung resection procedures with intraoperative forced-air warming: 197 with general and epidural anesthesia (GA + EPI), 199 with general anesthesia alone (GA). Statistical analyses were performed to determine the association betwee

SUBMITTER: Emmert A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5944492 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature