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Guidelines for Complications of Cancer Treatment Vol VIII Part B

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Design: Randomized controlled trial comparing routinethermal care (hypothermic group) to additional supplementalwarming care (normothermic group).Setting: Operating rooms and surgical intensive care unit atan academic medical center. Subjects: Three hundred patientsundergoing abdominal, thoracic, or vascular surgicalprocedures who either had documented coronary artery diseaseor were at high risk <strong>for</strong> coronary disease.Outcome Measure: The relative risk <strong>of</strong> a morbid cardiac event(unstable angina/ischemia, cardiac arrest, or myocardialinfarction) according to thermal treatment. Cardiac outcomeswere assessed in a double-blind fashion.Results: Mean core temperature after surgery was lower in thehypothermic group (35.4+/-0.1 degrees C) than in thenormothermic group (36.7+/-0.1 degrees C) (P

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