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A Randomised Controlled Trial of the Resistive Heating Blanket versus the Convective Warming System for Preventing Hypothermia during Major Abdominal Surgery
We compared resistive heating (RH) and upper-body convective warming (CW) in 70 patients (RH 33, CW 31, 6 excluded) undergoing major abdominal surgery. The effect of RH was not inferior to that of CW for the time-weighted average core temperature, and the lower limit of 95% CW was greater than −0.5°C. Resistive heating showed no inferiority in maintaining core temperature compared with convective warming.
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