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Postanaesthetic shivering - from pathophysiology to prevention.

Rom J Anaesth Intensive Care

April 2018

Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Medicine, Clinic of Anaesthesia, University Hospital of Lucus Augusti, Lugo, Spain.

Postoperative shivering is a common complication of anaesthesia. Shivering is believed to increase oxygen consumption, increase the risk of hypoxemia, induce lactic acidosis, and catecholamine release. Therefore, it might increase the postoperative complications especially in high-risk patients.

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