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Physicians come out on the winning end of 80% of malpractice claims that end in jury verdicts, according to researchers at Massachusetts General Hos...

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A CT-scan-based, laxative-free "virtual colonoscopy" may be as effective as standard colonoscopy in finding potentially cancerous polyps, according ...

Wrong-Site Prevention Video Shows the Right Way

Wrong-site, wrong-patient and wrong-procedure surgery must be prevented at all costs. The 3 steps of the Joint Commission's Universal Protocol make ...

Archive > January, 2011 Vol. XII, No. 1

Take Our Patient Warming Quiz

How do your answers compare to clinical practice guidelines — and to the opinions of 254 of your colleagues that we recently polled?

Shari Burns, CRNA, MSN, EdD

Even as awareness of the dangers of perioperative hypothermia and the importance of maintaining normothermia in surgical patients has grown over the past few years, we still struggle about how to keep patients' body temperatures at 98.6°F from the time they arrive in pre-op to the time they're discharged. What's the best way to warm children? What about patients undergoing open abdominal procedures? Do cataract patients need active warming?

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