2023 Chinese Expert Consensus Statement for Prevention and Management of Perioperative Hypothermia

The 2023 Chinese Expert Consensus Statement for Prevention and Management of Perioperative Hypothermia is an update of the 2017 Chinese Expert Consensus Statement for Prevention and Management of Perioperative Hypothermia. It is intended to provide patient-centric recommendations for clinicians to prevent and manage inadvertent hypothermia. It offers advice on assessing patient's risk of hypothermia, measuring and monitoring temperature as well as preventing patients from hypothermia before, during and after surgery. It also provides new evidence on hypothermia and adverse outcomes, and temprature management for special patients care considerations including pediatric, pregnancy, trauma, liver transplantation and sepsis.