Prewarming Parturients for Cesarean Section Does Not Raise Wound Temperature But Body Heat and Level of Comfort: A Randomized Trial.

Purpose: Prewarming before cesarean section lowers the rates of surgical site infections (SSIs). We hypothesized that this effect is explained due to a higher core temperature resulting in a higher wound temperature.

Design: We conducted an open-labeled randomized study with on-term parturients scheduled for elective cesarean section under spinal anesthesia.