A Randomised Controlled Trial of the Resistive Heating Blanket versus the Convective Warming System for Preventing Hypothermia during Major Abdominal Surgery. Issue 4 (April 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tanaka, Noriyoshi; Ohno, Yuko; Hori, Megumi; Utada, Mai; Ito, Kenji; Suzuki, Toshiyasu
• Is Part Of: Journal of perioperative practice. Volume 23:Issue 4(2013)
• Page Start: 82
• Page End: 85
• Publication Date: 2013-04
• Subjects: Convective warming system -- Hypothermia -- Perioperative nursing -- Resistive heating blanket -- Warming devices; Operating room nursing -- Periodicals; 617.9192
• DOI: 10.1177/175045891302300404
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2515-7949

Abstract

We compared resistive heating (RH) and upper-body convective warming (CW) in 70 patients (RH 33, CW 31, 6 excluded) undergoing major abdominal surgery. The effect of RH was not inferior to that of CW for the time-weighted average core temperature, and the lower limit of 95% CW was greater than −0.5°C. Resistive heating showed no inferiority in maintaining core temperature compared with convective warming.