Title
Validation of computerized sniffer for monitoring perioperative normothermia.
Abstract
Introduction: The World Health Organization sets a standard to maintain patient core temperature greater than 36 degrees C throughout the perioperative period. Normothermia (defined as > 36 degrees C) in the Operating Room (OR) is an important factor to preventing complications in patients (MI, infection, coagulopathy). Randomized studies suggests that maintaining at higher temperatures may further reduce complications in surgery (less complications for group at 36.4 degrees C than the control group at 36.0 degrees C) [1,2]. Perioperative normothermia is an important but often unrecognized element during anesthesia. Early recognition of hypothermia would allow for appropriate interventions and prevent complications. Methodology: Manual validation of the diagnostic performance a clinical tool (alert) that would automatically measure changes in core temperature to identify patients who fail to be in range of normothermia during surgery. Results: The clinical tool(alert) was found to be 97 % sensitive.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.3233/978-1-61499-289-9-943
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Hypothermia,validation studies,sensitivity and specificity
Intensive care medicine,Perioperative,Medicine
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
192
0926-9630
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jyothsna Giri1111.97
Man Li200.34
Brian Pickering3113.07
Arun Subramanian400.34
Daryl J Kor554.01
Vitaly Herasevich62917.49