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Hypothermia: assessment treatment and prevention

01 October 2005

Nursing Older People

CPD

Hypothermia is a condition that can have serious consequences, yet its symptoms are often unrecognised in older people because they can be easily confused with...

Prevention of hypothermia

21 May 2009

Nursing Older People

Feature

This article examines normal thermoregulation and the changes in temperature control associated with the ageing process. Factors that influence hypothermia in older...

Hypothermia: assessment, treatment and prevention

26 January 2005

Nursing Standard

CPD

Hypothermia is a condition that can have serious consequences, yet its symptoms are often unrecognised in older people because they can be easily confused with...

Nursing management of the patient with hypothermia

02 January 2008

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article describes the signs and symptoms of hypothermia and outlines its acute nursing management.

Inadvertent hypothermia: is it just a perioperative problem?

13 October 1999

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Patients undergoing surgery run the added risk of inadvertent hypothermia. This article suggests that simple measures undertaken in the ward can prevent this serious...

Peri-operative hypothermia: implications for practice

10 July 2013

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article explores whether there are adverse surgical outcomes for patients who experience hypothermia in the peri-operative period. Findings of this literature...

Therapeutic hypothermia in the treatment of cardiorespiratory arrest

05 February 2010

Emergency Nurse

CPD

Prompt treatment of patients with cardiorespiratory arrest can mean the difference between life and death. This article analyses the use of therapeutic hypothermia...

Triad of death: the importance of temperature monitoring in trauma patients

Nursing Older People

evidence & practice

Multiple organ failure is a significant complication in traumatic injury, and can be exacerbated by a failure to adequately monitor and control trauma patients’ core...

Management of water incidents: drowning and hypothermia

21 October 2009

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Dangers exist wherever water is present, and death resulting from submersion in water is likely to occur rapidly. This article discusses the management of drowning...

Principles of temperature monitoring

14 August 2013

Nursing Standard

Learning Zone

Maintaining optimum body temperature is essential to life, and taking and recording a patient’s temperature is a fundamental nursing skill. Deviation from the normal...

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