Warming of intravenous and irrigation fluids for preventing inadvertent perioperative hypothermia

Impact of Induced Normothermia on Occurrence of Post Anesthetic Shivering and Wound Infection among Patients Undergoing Abdominal Surgeries

“…Patients had normal body temperature in study group was 82.76%. On the same vein [25] stated that among 1,409 patients, 528 (37.5%) had hypothermia, which was classified as mild (35.5-35.9°C) in 358, moderate (35.0-35.4°C) in 137, and severe (<35.0°C) in 33.…”

The Effects of Irrigation Solution Temperature on Body Temperature in Transurethral Surgeries

“…In this review, authors pointed out that qualities of the available studies were moderate to low, due to the unclear designs of the trials. 8 In this context, we aimed to determine the effects of the temperature of the irrigation fluid on core body temperature changes in patients undergoing TUR surgeries, with a standardized and carefully designed study.…”

A Randomized Controlled Trial on Intra-Abdominal Irrigation during Emergency Trauma Laparotomy; Time for Yet Another Paradigm Shift

“…Finally, since the advent of damage control surgery, one of the purported benefits of the modern use of irrigation is the prevention (and reversal) of hypothermia. While the benefits of said prevention are well documented in the trauma literature, it is less clear how effective intrabdominal irrigation with warm fluids is to achieve that goal [35,37]. We have shown that the use of larger volumes of intraoperative peritoneal irrigation offered no mortality benefit, regardless of the mechanism of injury, or the presence or severity of abdominal contamination as determined by the operating surgeon.…”

“…During the last decade of the twentieth century (and in some more recent literature [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]) animal and other experimental studies began addressing the question of which fluid and how much [8,[25][26][27][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40]. It was during this period that the potential adverse effects of the use of abdominal washouts were described: upregulation of pro-inflammatory mediators, damage to peritoneal mesothelial cells and polymorphonuclear neutrophil membranes, promotion of postoperative adhesions, documented instances of bacterial translocation, failure to effectively decrease peritoneal bacterial counts, and potential adverse effects on final hemostasis (through technical or chemical issues) [7,33].…”