Immediate Adverse Consequences of Perioperative Hypothermia
| Adverse Outcome | Mechanism | | Increased operative blood loss | Coagulopathy and platelet dysfunction | | Increased morbid cardiac events | Increased myocardial work load | | Dysrhythmias and myocardial ischemia | Increased sympathetic activity | | Wound infection | Sympathetic mediated cutaneous vasoconstriction | | Delayed wound healing | | | Delayed anesthetic emergence | Decreased drug metabolism and increased volatile agent solubility, decreased MAC | | Delayed recovery room discharge | Postanesthetic shivering, delayed recovery |
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