Patients were studied to quantitate methods used to prevent heat loss during vascular surgery A combination of techniques limiting heat loss were shown to prevent hypothermia. In addition it was shown that heat balance in patients undergoing vascular surgery did not differ from that in patients undergoing other forms of surgery.
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