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Article: Clinical Guidelines For Body Temperature Management Published.(during surgery to prevent hypothermia)
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- February 4, 2002
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2002 FEB 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (ASPAN) has published the first U.S. clinical guidelines for the management of body temperature.
The society hopes that these guidelines will promote further guideline development and research related to the prevention of hypothermia, especially in pediatric and trauma patients.
ASPAN's guidelines are the first initiated in the U.S. although legislation created in 1989 called for the development, periodic review and update of clinically relevant guidelines. Other U.S. groups have recommended body temperature monitoring, but have gone no further. An Italian ...