Fig 1.
Flow chart.
Table 1.
Patient and surgery characteristics (n = 893).
Table 2.
Anesthetic characteristics (n = 893).
Fig 2.
Breakdown of patients based on Tc when arriving at the recovery room.
In a study published in 1981, Vaughan et al. [25] observed that 60% of patients arriving at the RR had Tc<36°C. The decrease in the prevalence of hypothermia is minimal (-8%), despite the invention and widespread adoption of pulsed-air warmers.
Table 3.
Core temperatures, temperature monitoring and IO active warming system use.
Fig 3.
Box and whisker plots of core temperature according to intraoperative warming modalities.
The horizontal line within the box indicates the median, boundaries of the box indicate the 25th- and 75th -percentile, and the whiskers indicate the highest and lowest values of the results. Core temperatures were not significantly different from the beginning of the anesthesia to the surgical incision time. They were significantly different at the end of the surgery and at arrival in the RR. They were again no statistically different when the patients left the RR.
Table 4.
Predicting factors of hypothermia on recovery room admission.