Temperature measurement and active forced air warming
Admissions ward | Theatre reception | Anaesthetic room | Operating room | Recovery unit | Surgical ward | |
Patients with temperature recorded | 115/124 (93%) | 0/124 (0%) | 9/124 (7%) | 64/124 (51%) | 114/124 (91%) | 98/124 (79%) |
Patients recorded as hypothermic | 2/115 (2%) | – | 3/9 (33%) | 25/64 (39%) | 36/114 (32%) | 2/98 (2%) |
Patients given forced air warming | 0 | 0 | 0 | 78/124 (63%) | 19/124 (15%) | 0 |
Hypothermic patients given forced air warming | 0 | / | 0 | 24/25 (96%) | 17/36 (47%) | / |