%0 Journal Article
%T The importance of body temperature: An anesthesiologist's perspective
%A Amol Patwardhan
%A Mohab Ibrahim
%A Ryan Matika
%J Archive of "Temperature: Multidisciplinary Biomedical Journal".
%D 2017
%R 10.1080/23328940.2016.1243509
%X The anesthesiologist is entrusted with many important responsibilities during the perioperative experience beyond anesthetizing the patient, including securing the airway, attenuating the stress response, ensuring the patient has a sustainable hemodynamics, implementing a ventilation strategy, preserving euvolemia, and maintaining normothermia. From an outsider's prospective, of all of these concerns one may think that maintaining normothermia would be the easiest of tasks, yet for a wide variety of reasons discussed below, intraoperative hypothermia (< 36ˇăC) occurs frequently when the patients are under general anesthesia
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5356209/