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Archive > October, 2005 Vol. VI, No. 10

The Economics of Patient Warming

How preventing hypothermia is more cost-effective than treating it.

Chris Brown Mahoney, RN, MS, PhD

Every year, an estimated 14 million surgical patients suffer unintentional hypothermia - that is, hypothermic conditions that aren't planned, as they are in certain neurological or cardiac procedures - during their perioperative treatment.

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