Edwards Surgical staff use Unit Quality Project to fight hypothermia – and keep it HOT!
This bulletin board helped kick off the Unit Quality Project.
In the Edwards Surgical Pavilion (ESP), staff have traditionally used many, many cotton blankets to help maintain a patient’s normal body temperature, or “normothermia”, as they journey through preop, the OR and PACU.
For their July Unit Quality Project, ESP staff are exploring the option of using Thermoflect blankets instead of cotton. The Thermoflect blankets prevent hypothermia by preserving a patient’s core body temperature. Evidence shows this may improve patient outcomes, reduce surgical site infections, shorten hospital stays, reduces healthcare costs, and make the patient more comfortable.
Hooray for Edwards! Keep it HOT! HOT! HOT!
For more about Nursing Quality projects at AAMC, check out AAMC Nurses, what do we own?
-Maria D. Reinitz, ESP Unit Quality committee, co-chair and Amy Stone, Quality committee chair
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