1. The effect of forced-air warming in the cesarean section on maternal hypothermia, shivering, and thermal comfort: A randomized controlled trial.
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Akdag Topal, Cansu, Yucel Ozcirpan, Cigdem, and Ozyuncu, Ozgur
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CESAREAN section , *HYPOTHERMIA , *POSTOPERATIVE care , *SELF-evaluation , *REPEATED measures design , *ARM , *LEG , *ACADEMIC medical centers , *T-test (Statistics) , *RESEARCH funding , *THERMOTHERAPY , *SHIVERING , *STATISTICAL sampling , *VISUAL analog scale , *PARAMETERS (Statistics) , *KRUSKAL-Wallis Test , *FISHER exact test , *TREATMENT effectiveness , *RANDOMIZED controlled trials , *PREOPERATIVE care , *PREGNANT women , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *MANN Whitney U Test , *CHI-squared test , *RECOVERY rooms , *LONGITUDINAL method , *MATHEMATICAL statistics , *APGAR score , *ONE-way analysis of variance , *FRIEDMAN test (Statistics) , *TEMPERATURE , *COMPARATIVE studies , *DATA analysis software , *CONFIDENCE intervals , *PERIOPERATIVE care , *DISEASE incidence , *NONPARAMETRIC statistics ,PREVENTION of surgical complications - Abstract
This trial was carried out to investigate the effect of forced air warming in various body areas of women on hypothermia during cesarean delivery. The patients in the study groups (n = 76) were assigned to the full-body warming group, upper-extremity warming group, lower-extremity warming group, and control groups. The intervention groups received forced-air warming 30 min before the surgery and continued until 30 min after surgery. The incidence of hypothermia was significantly higher in the control group than in the other groups at the 60th minute of the operation (p < 0.01). The intervention and control groups showed significant differences in the frequency of shivering at the entrance to the PACU (p = 0.001). Thermal comfort scores have significant difference between the control group and all of the intervention groups (p<.001). It is said that the full-body forced-air warming technique prevents hypothermia, shivering, and thermal discomfort in women Cesarean Section (CS). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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