rapid decrease in the patient's temperature — up to 2°C per hour. If
you don't do anything to keep the patient warm, their temperature will
quickly go from about 37°C to around 35°C during the first hour of sur-
gery.
You also have a financial incentive to warm patients. Medicare's
Merit-Based Incentive Payment System calls for measuring periopera-
tive temperature management for patients who are under anesthesia
for more than an hour. It requires you to use a method of active
warming and also for at least one body temperature reading to be
equal to or greater than 35.5°C or 95.9°F within 30 minutes before or
15 minutes after anesthesia end time.
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Dr. Austin (paustin@txwes.edu) is a professor of nurse anesthesia at Texas
Wesleyan University in Fort Worth.
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