Abstract:BackgroundArthroplasty patients are at high risk of hypothermia. Pre‐warming with forced air has been shown to reduce the incidence of intraoperative hypothermia. There is, however, a lack of evidence that pre‐warming with a self‐warming (SW) blanket can reduce the incidence of perioperative hypothermia. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of an SW blanket and a forced‐air warming (FAW) blanket peri‐operatively. We hypothesised that the SW blanket is inferior to the FAW blanket.MethodsIn total, 150 p… Show more
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