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Archive > February, 2012 Vol. XIII, No. 2

How Would You Warm This Patient?

Pick the best interventions to avoid hypothermia in your patients.

Shari Burns, CRNA, MSN, EdD

We asked 220 Outpatient Surgery Magazine readers to review 7 common surgical scenarios and then tell us which interventions they'd use to keep the patient warm before, during and after surgery. See if you can pick the best interventions to avoid hypothermia in your patients. The answers are circled in red. The percentages after each answer indicate how the survey respondents would have intervened.

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