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Outpatient Surgery E-Weekly

Contact Congress Over Drug Shortage Issues

A Kentucky congressman is urging surgical facilities to contact their members of Congress and request that they sign his letter demanding changes to...

N.J. Posts ASC Inspection Reports Online

State and federal inspection reports of New Jersey's ASCs are now available online, giving patients an opportunity to make more informed choices abo...

Are Opioids Necessary?

While it's not always practical, or even possible, to eliminate opioids from your post-op pain management regiment, reducing their use in favor of n...

Archive > January, 2008 Vol. IX, No. 1

Thinking of Buying...Patient Warming Devices

Negotiate their costs, test their features and study their efficiency.

Terry Wicks

On any given day, at any given surgical facility, patients who are wheeled into the OR will remark that it's cold. There's no doubt about that: it tends to be a cold room. But while waking up shivering after surgery is a miserable experience, the risks carried by even mild perioperative hypothermia are even worse: higher incidences of surgical bleeding and post-op infection as well as delayed recoveries.

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