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Perioperative Temperature Management Curriculum
The purpose of this curriculum is to enable participants to plan and implement a temperature management plan for the perioperative patient. This includes appropriate pre-operative assessment of risk factors for hypothermia, knowledge about why and how surgical patients become hypothermic in order to take prevention measures, minimize and/or and treat perioperative hypothermia, and decrease the risk of adverse outcomes.
Consists of two interactive modules (both must be completed)
- Unintended Hypothermia: The Importance of maintaining normothermia
- Getting to the Core: Considerations for perioperative patient temperature monitoring
At the conclusion of the program, participants will be able to:
- Explain how the body’s thermoregulatory system works
- Define and explain the principal mechanism of heat loss in the surgical patient
- Identify adverse patient outcomes associated with unintended hypothermia
- Explain the benefit of prewarming to help prevent unintended hypothermia
- Discuss the importance of monitoring core body temperature in perioperative patients
- Identify methods of monitoring body temperature during the perioperative journey and the benefits and drawbacks associated with each method
- Outline guidelines and recommended practices for perioperative temperature monitoring
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*Good through July 21, 2024
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