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A Study Of Fever Differences Following Cardiac Surgery, Cleta Phyllis Lane
A Study Of Fever Differences Following Cardiac Surgery, Cleta Phyllis Lane
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The purpose of this study was to find out whether the temperature level following heart and great vessel surgery is greater following the use of the heart-lung machine than those following closed heart surgery or cardiac and great vessel surgery with the use of hypothermia.
The method used was the descriptive survey. Data were obtained from medical records in one selected hospital. The desired number of charts was 50 for each of the three categories. The categories were identified by groups as follows:
Group I: patients having had cardiac surgery by a closed heart technique. All of the patients in …