Forced-Air Warming Provides Better Control of Body Temperature in Porcine Surgical Patients.

Maintaining normothermia during porcine surgery is critical in ensuring subject welfare and recovery, reducing the risk of immune system compromise and surgical-site infection that can result from hypothermia. In humans, various methods of patient heating have been demonstrated to be useful, but less evaluation has been performed in techniques to prevent hypothermia perioperatively in pigs. We compared body temperature regulation during surgery before and after modification of the ambient temperature of the operating laboratories.