Postoperative hypothermia and patient outcomes after major elective non‐cardiac surgery. (17th April 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Karalapillai, D.; Story, D.; Hart, G. K.; Bailey, M.; Pilcher, D.; Schneider, A.; Kaufman, M.; Cooper, D. J.; Bellomo, R.
• Is Part Of: Anaesthesia. Volume 68:Number 6(2013:Jun.)
• Page Start: 605
• Page End: 611
• Publication Date: 2013-04-17
• Subjects: Anesthesia -- Periodicals; 617.96
• DOI: 10.1111/anae.12129
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-2409

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" xml:lang="en" id="anae12129-abs-0001"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>Using a multicentre adult patient database from Australia and New Zealand, we obtained the lowest and highest temperature in the first 24 h after admission to the intensive care unit after elective non‐cardiac surgery. Hypothermia was defined as core temperature &lt; 36 °C; transient hypothermia as a temperature &lt; 36 °C that was corrected within 24 h, and persistent hypothermia as hypothermia not corrected within 24 h. We studied 50 689 patients. Hypothermia occurred in 23 165 (46%) patients, was transient in 22 810 (45%), and was persistent in 608 (1.2%) patients. On multivariate analysis, neither transient (OR = 1.07, 95% CI 0.96–1.20) nor persistent (OR = 1.50. 95% CI 0.96–2.33) hypothermia was independently associated with increased hospital mortality.</p> </abstract>