Turn Up The Heat - Avoiding Surgical Complications with Adequate Patient Warming

Course overview

Under SCIP-Inf-10 clinicians must either actively warm patients during surgery or record a body temperature of 36 degrees C (96.8 degrees Fahrenheit) or higher within 30 minutes before or 15 minutes immediately after the end of anesthesia. Clinicians must provide clear documentation of the temperature during active warming or in relation to the end of anesthesia.