Kammar-García, A.; Romero-Chacón, L.K.; Guadarrama-Tovar, S.G.; Mancilla-Galindo, J.; Guerrero-Gutiérrez, M.A.; Escarramán-Martínez, D.; Aguilar-Silva, F. Postoperative Hypothermia in Patients Undergoing Major Abdominal Surgery: A Cohort Study. Preprints2023, 2023051152. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.1152.v1
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Kammar-García, A., Romero-Chacón, L.K., Guadarrama-Tovar, S.G., Mancilla-Galindo, J., Guerrero-Gutiérrez, M.A., Escarramán-Martínez, D., & Aguilar-Silva, F. (2023). Postoperative Hypothermia in Patients Undergoing Major Abdominal Surgery: A Cohort Study. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.1152.v1
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Kammar-García, A., Diego Escarramán-Martínez and Fernando Aguilar-Silva. 2023 "Postoperative Hypothermia in Patients Undergoing Major Abdominal Surgery: A Cohort Study" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202305.1152.v1
Abstract
Objective: To describe the proportion of patients undergoing major abdominal surgery who develop postoperative hypothermia, and the variables associated with its occurrence. Material and Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort study in a tertiary care referral hospital in Mexico City to describe the incidence of perioperative hypothermia and factors associated with postoperative hypothermia. A repeated measures ANOVA model was used to compare preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative temperatures. Potential variables associated with hypothermia were evaluated with a logistic regression analysis. Results: A total of 110 patients were included in the analysis. Of them, 61% (n=67) were women. The mean age was 56.7 years (SD: 16.3, range: 75). The most frequently involved organ on which surgery was performed was kidney or urinary tract (21.8%), followed by large bowel (14.5%) and exploratory laparotomy (14.5%). The incidence of postoperative hypothermia in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery was 57.3%, while preoperative and intraoperative hypothermia occurred in 55.5% and 79.1%, respectively. Age over 60 years was the only variable associated with postoperative hypothermia after multivariable adjustment for sex, age, and time surgery (OR=18.4, 95% CI:3.79-89.6, p<0.0001). Conclusion: Increasing age was the only variable associated with postoperative hypothermia in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery.
Keywords
Hypothermia; abdominal surgery; Risk factors
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
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