The benefits of maintaining normothermia before, during and after surgery benefits include the reduction in risk of postoperative wound infection, myocardial ischemia, perioperative coagulopathy, blood loss and transfusion requirement. However, the effects of patient warming during caesarean delivery is not widely practiced as the consequences are unclear. In this context, this article provides maternal and neonatal effects of warming the patients during cesarean delivery.
Several studies have investigated the effects of warming the patient during cesarean delivery but there is no consensus regarding whether it improves maternal and neonatal outcomes. Whereas, the interpretation the results is very difficult because the methods generally include different anesthetic techniques, variable ambient room temperature, diverse temperature measurement devices, and varied temperature…
