Postoperative Hypothermia

A 68yo male with a h/o CAD is now s/p hemicolectomy for cancer is awake and extubated in the PACU, but his temperature is 34.4.

References:
(note, all residents should have access to Anesthesiology articles online if they receive the journal.  Many other journals are available with a USF account through MD Consult...just access it from the departmental home page)
  1. Sessler D.  Complications and treatment of mild hypothermia.  Anesthesiology 2001;95:531-543 (pdf. version)

Last updated 6/9/03 by Roy G. Soto, M.D.
© 2003, Roy G. Soto, M.D., and the University of South Florida College of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology