Panagiotis Kiekkas, Maria Poulopoulou, Argiri Papahatzi, Panagiotis Souleles
Anesthesiology Department, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece.
AORN J. 2005 Feb;81(2):379-82, 385-92. doi: 10.1016/s0001-2092(06)60420-1.
Inadvertent hypothermia is one of the most common complications experienced by surgical patients who are transferred to the postanesthesia care unit (PACU). Appropriate pacu length of stay (LOS) is defined as the time required for a patient to achieve a physiologically stable condition after anesthesia administration. In studies measuring appropriate LOS, patients who arrived hypothermic in the PACU had longer stays than those who arrived normothermic. The aims of this study were to determine whether the actual and appropriate LOS in the PACU differs between hypothermic and normothermic patients and to identify differences between subgroups of patients according to age, gender, and type of anesthesia administered.
意外低体温是转至麻醉后护理单元（PACU）的手术患者最常见的并发症之一。合适的PACU住院时长（LOS）定义为患者在麻醉给药后达到生理稳定状态所需的时间。在测量合适LOS的研究中，进入PACU时体温过低的患者比体温正常的患者住院时间更长。本研究的目的是确定低体温患者与体温正常患者在PACU的实际住院时长和合适住院时长是否存在差异，并根据年龄、性别和麻醉类型确定患者亚组之间的差异。
