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Abstract
Inadvertent hypothermia during anesthesia is by far the most
common perioperative thermal disturbance. Hypothermia results from
a combination of anesthetic impaired thermoregulation and exposure
to a cold operating theater environment. Old patients were more liable
to develop inadvertent hypothermia.
perioperative hypothermia is associated with an increased
incidence of postoperative myocardial ischemia and angina in older
patients even in absence of shivering.
Prevention of perioperative hypothermia can be achieved by
decreasing heat loss by proper insulation of the patient; theater
conditioning, the use of warm intravenous fluids and replacing heat
loss using heating mattress. Recently aminoacids mixture infusion
preoperatively is claimed to prevent hypothermia by increasing
metabolic heat production.