Nursing care of intraoperative hypothermia / 中国中西医结合急救杂志

ABSTRACT

Intraoperative hypothermia can lead to a lot of complications during peri-operative period, that may affect the prognoses of patients and has attracted clinical doctors and nurses to pay attention to. During the operation period, proper hypothermia can reduce tissue metabolism, reduce oxygen consumption, enhance tolerance to injury and protect the body; while excessive hypothermia can increase the incidences of wound infection, acidosis, blood coagulation dysfunction, arrhythmia and other complications, that may seriously threaten the life and health of operative patients. In this article, the causes of excessive hypothermia during operation were mainly analyzed, effectively monitoring temperature changes in intra-operative patients was proposed and carried out to find out the main causes leading to the body temperature lowering, and then comprehensive, reasonable and safe nursing methods were applied to effectively prevent the occurrence of excessive hypothermia during operation, so that the hospitalization time can be shortened.