Factores relacionados con la hipotermia en cirugía oncológica programada de colon y recto

Abstract

Introduction. Perioperative normothermia has a main role in the recovery and reduction of the complications of the patients who are going to undergo a surgical intervention. This research aimed to study who were the patients undergoing a colon and rectum surgery more likely to have unnoticed hypothermia according to the kind of surgical technique (laparoscopy or open surgery), sex, age and body mass index. Methodology: An observational transversal descriptive study was performed including colon and rectum surgery with a surgery time over an hour. The association among the central temperature and the rest of variables: technique, sex, age, and body mass index was explored by applying the t Student test. Results: Data from 107 patients were analysed during a year, who consecutively undergone a surgery in the Coloproctology Unit in a third level hospital. Patients who had been operated by using a laparoscopy techinique were less likely to have hypothermia in the second hour of the surgery than those who have undergone an open surgery. Women had a higher risk of hypothermia than men. Nevertheless, age and body mass index showed no significant difference. Discussion. This study was able to identify what patients are more likely to have hypothermia as well as have shown how, applying some temperature maintaining care, the patient will keep normothermia.