Forced-air warming blanket application of nursing research in the operation of radical resection of colon ;cancer

Abstract

Objective To probe into the value of forced-air warming blanket to prevent the body temperature drop of surgical patients during operation .Methods A total of 60 colon cancer patients accepting radical operation under general anesthesia were randomly divided into test and control group .During the operation, control group cases received operation at room temperature .Except during the heating operation of intravenous fluid , blood and warming peritoneal lavage fluid ,with no use of forced-air warming blanket .Patients of test group had received their operation on the forced-air warming blanket in surgical bed , except during the heating operation of intravenous fluid , blood and warming peritoneal washings . Then changes of body temperature, PT, APTT, PLT of the two group cases were observed .Results Control group compared with test group, no significant difference was found at the beginning of the operation temperature [（36.4 ±0.3 vs 36.3 ± 0.4）℃,t=0.319, P>0.05], the operation temperature at the end of the control group was significantly lower than that in test group [（35.5 ±0.4 vs 36.5 ±0.3）℃,t=4.984, P 0.05 ）;. Conclusions During the radical resection of colon cancer ,forced-air warming blanket can effectively reduce the occurrence of peri-operation period of low temperature and low temperature related complication . Key words: Colon cancer; Surgery; Nursing; Forced-air warming blanket