Findings from the Department of Outcomes
Research and Outcomes Research Consortium
Perioperative Heat Balance
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Renewal Date: June 18, 2011
Expiration Date: June 18, 2012
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Estimated Time of Completion: 90 minutes
Description
The combination of anesthetic-induced impairment of thermoregulatory control and exposure to a cool operating room environment makes most surgical patients hypothermic. However, there is compelling evidence that even mild hypothermia causes serious adverse outcomes. Consequently, it is now routine to maintain intraoperative normothermia (core temperature >36°C) unless therapeutic hypothermia is specifically indicated.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the effects of neuraxial anesthesia on heat balance.
- Discuss the effects of general anesthesia on heat balance.
- List methods to prevent perioperative hypothermia.
Target Audience
This activity is intended for anesthesiologists and other physicians and nurses caring for perioperative and critical-care patients.
Accreditation
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Participants claiming CME credit from this activity may submit the credit hours to the American Osteopathic Association Council on Continuing Medical Education for Category 2 credit.
Activity Director / Author
Daniel I. Sessler, MD
Chairman, Department of Outcomes Research
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio
Disclosure
In accordance with the Standards for Commercial Support issued by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education requires resolution of all faculty conflicts of interest to ensure CME activities are free of commercial bias.
The following faculty has indicated he has no relationship which, in the context of his presentation, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:
Daniel I. Sessler, MD
This CME activity was produced by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Center for Continuing Education and the Outcomes Research Consortium.
