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Back in April of this year, just around the time of the SAQ, those pleasant people at NICE published new guidance on Perioperative Hypothermia (Inadvertent).  It didn’t make it into the last exam, because it was published too late, but it strikes me that because maintaining a patient’s temperature during anaesthesia and surgery is a fairly straightforward thing to do, is relatively inexpensive in the grand scheme of things, and has so many potential benefits, that it has a high chance of coming up in the exam this time around.

There is also an article in this month’s Anesthesiology about Temperature Monitoring and Perioperative Thermoregulation by Daniel Sessler from the USA, who has a special interest in perioperative thermoregulation and has been studying it for about 22 years.

CEACCP published Thermoregulation and mild peri-operative hypothermia, an article about mild perioperative hypothermia and its effects, in 2003.

Remember also, that you may be asked in viva voce about methods of temperature monitoring and how the devices used work, and that HME filters are also a possible topic for questioning.

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