Findings from the Department of Outcomes
Research and Outcomes Research Consortium

Temperature Monitoring and
Perioperative Thermoregulation

Release Date:  August 22, 2008
Renewal Date:   August 27, 2011
Expiration Date:   August 27, 2012

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Estimated Time of Completion:  2 hours

Description
This article reviews perioperative temperature monitoring and the effects of anesthetic drugs on body temperature control.

Learning Objectives

1. Review temperature monitoring and normal thermoregulation.
2. Describe the effects of general anesthesia on thermoregulation.
3. Explain the effects of neuraxial anesthesia on thermoregulation.

Target Audience
This activity is intended for anesthesiologists and other physicians and nurses caring for perioperative and critical-care patients.

Accreditation
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Participants claiming CME credit from this activity may submit the credit hours to the American Osteopathic Association Council on Continuing Medical Education for Category 2 credit.

Activity Director / Author
Daniel I. Sessler, MD
Chairman, Department of Outcomes Research
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Disclosure
In accordance with the Standards for Commercial Support issued by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education requires resolution of all faculty conflicts of interest to ensure CME activities are free of commercial bias.

The following faculty has indicated he has no relationship, which in the context of his presentation, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

Daniel I. Sessler, MD

This CME activity was produced by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Center for Continuing Education and the Outcomes Research Consortium.

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