Session Summary
In spite of your and the team’s best efforts, there could be a hidden culprit quietly undermining your patient’s recovery. Perioperative hypothermia is a silent threat in critically ill patients, contributing to infections, cardiac instability and delayed healing—yet it often goes unnoticed. This dynamic session equips nurses with evidence-based tools to identify, prevent and manage hypothermia, dramatically improving outcomes and accelerating recovery. Don’t miss the chance to uncover this critical issue and lead the change for safer perioperative care.
Objectives
- Identify key risk factors and complications associated with perioperative hypothermia in surgical and critically ill patients.
- Explain the pathophysiology and mechanisms of heat loss contributing to perioperative hypothermia.
- Apply evidence-based hypothermia prevention strategies in ICU settings to reduce morbidity and improve outcomes.
Topics
MultiSystem
Population
Adult
Role
Staff
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Successful Completion
Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation to be awarded contact hours AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.
Accreditation
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for 1.00 contact hours.
Disclosure
Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content will be identified by the Nurse Planner within the activity. Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content has been mitigated.
Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education only and does not imply AACN, ANCC, or CBRN approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed or displayed in conjunction with this educational activity.
Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.
Activities meet the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your own state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting your certificate of completion.
Refund Policy
Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.