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Why Does Patient Warming Matter?

The importance of staving off hypothermia goes well beyond patient comfort.

Daniel Sessler, MD

Let's find out what you know about the causes of intraoperative hypothermia, why maintaining normothermia is vitally important to your infection control efforts and the best ways to keep patients warm and safe from pre-op to PACU.

 
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