Mitigating Surgical Site Infection Risks via Thermal Regulating Modalities

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dc.contributor.authorRobinson, J. Shawn
dc.contributor.authorSouverain, Vladimir
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-25T19:11:06Z
dc.date.available2020-06-25T19:11:06Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractForced-air warmers (FAW) are used routinely in the operating room to help manage hypothermia, which can lead to surgical site infections (SSI) if left untreated. However, recent evidence suggests an association between the use of forced-air warmers and surgical site infections, especially in patients undergoing general, orthopedic, and vascular procedures. To address this concern, a literature review was conducted by searching the Cochrane Databases, Access Anesthesiology, MEDLINE, CINAHL, and Academic Search Premier. Afterwards, an educational PowerPoint was conducted, with the objective of helping Adventist University of Health Sciences (ADU) Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists (SRNAs) understand the infection risk associated with FAW and offering recommendations to safely decrease the infection risks while preventing hypothermia perioperatively. A pre-test and a post-test were conducted before and after the presentation. Paired sample tests from the pre-test and the post-test showed that percentage scores significantly increased by 26.8. Additionally, a F test demonstrated that there was significantly less variance in the post-test percentage scores compared to the pre-test scores. These results suggest that the educational PowerPoint presentation successfully helped the ADU SRNAs expand their knowledge base regarding the relationship between FAWs and SSIs and best practices to reduce SSI hazards related to thermoregulation equipment.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12521/47
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectForced-air warmersen_US
dc.subjectsurgical site infectionsen_US
dc.titleMitigating Surgical Site Infection Risks via Thermal Regulating Modalitiesen_US
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