Therapeutic Hypothermia Summary

Therapeutic hypothermia and risk for infection articles done by Geurts, Marjolein and his team in 2014. They did observational studies suggest that infections are more common complication of therapeutic hypothermia. They also did random study to examine the risk of infection in adult patient treated with hypothermia. They collect information from each study about patient base line, cooling strategy and infection. The study concludes if the patient treated with hypothermia the infection not increased obviously while there was an increased risk of pneumonia and sepsis. (Geurts, Marjolein MD1, etal, 2014).Perioperative hypothermia can lead to different complications, for example infection, patient discomfort, bleeding, and recovery time is longer
Patients in the warmed group required less time in the recovery room. The following interventions were implemented such as keeping the operating room temperature always 24.0°C or warmer, all fluids used intraoperative were warmed to 35.0°C this included intravenous, infiltration, and irrigation fluids, along with saline used to fill implants. And while transfer patient to the recovery area, an electric warming blanket applied. (Chris D, etal, 2012). To conclude, at the beginning we discussed in our paper about intraoperative phase which extends from the time when the client is admitted to the operating room, to the time of anesthesia administration, performance of the surgical procedure and until the patients transported to the recovery room or post anesthesia care unit (PACU).And we mention about surgical teams with their main performances ,types of anesthesia ,intraoperative and postoperative complications and we summarize about two articles related to hypothermia complication ,statistic of intraoperative patients in 2016 from armed forced hospital and finally we include nursing care plane associated to our role play performed by our team in lab.We hope to be useful for our FMS