Perioperative Hypothermia Management
Perioperative hypothermia management encompasses both preventing inadvertent heat loss (core temperature < 36°C) and delivering therapeutic cooling for organ protection. With active warming devices, precise core monitoring, and controlled rewarming, anesthesia providers mitigate coagulopathy, arrhythmias, and infections while leveraging hypothermia's neuroprotective benefits in cardiac arrest and complex neurosurgery.
