Comparison of forced-air and water-circulating warming for prevention of hypothermia during transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) procedures at our institution were complicated by perioperative hypothermia despite use of the standard of care forced-air convective warming device (the BairHugger, Augustine Medical Inc, Eden Prairie, MN, USA). To remedy this problem, we initiated a qu...

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Main Authors: Benjamin Rohrer, Emily Penick, Farhad Zahedi, Hocine Tighiouart, Brian Kelly, Frederick Cobey, Stefan Ianchulev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5456084?pdf=render