Background: Intraoperative hypothermia (core temperature <36.0°C) is common during the perioperative period and can result in adverse consequences, especially in children. We aimed to determine the incidence of intraoperative hypothermia and its risk factors in pediatric patients during burn surgery.

Methods: In the present study we enrolled 197 pediatric patients with burn injury undergoing surgical debridement and skin grafting. Factors, such as total burn surface area (TBSA), were collected and analyzed to identify the potential risk factors for intraoperative hypothermia.

Results: The incidence of intraoperative hypothermia among all patients was 17.8%. Compared with patients with normothermia, children with hypothermia were associated with larger TBSA (25% vs 15%, p<0.001) and with less intraoperative active warming (34.28% vs 54.93%, p<0.05). In addition, compared with patients with moderate-degree burn, patients with severe and extremely severe burn were associated with much higher risk of intraoperative hypothermia [severe: odds ratio (OR)=3.805, 95% confidence interval (CI)=1.396-10.368, p=0.009; extremely severe: OR=6.933, 95% CI=2.604-18.462, p<0.001]. TBSA was the only independent risk factor that emerged as being strongly associated with intraoperative hypothermia (OR=1.068, p=0.001) and could be used to predict the occurrence of hypothermia when combined with other factors. TBSA for predicting intraoperative hypothermia by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis showed a good predictive ability with an area under the ROC curve of 0.758.

Conclusion: TBSA is an important risk factor for intraoperative hypothermia in pediatric patients with burn.

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