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True regarding hypothermia during Anaesthesia is

A
Occurs in all types of Anaesthesia
B
Treated with warm saline
C
Is beneficial to patients
D
Mechanism of heat loss is conduction
High-Yield Explanation
Hypothermia during anesthesiaMild hypothermia is extremely common during Anaesthesia and surgeryThe physiological effects of hypothermia may have significant potential for detrimental effects on patient well-being.Major consequences of inadveent hypothermia include morbid myocardial events, reduced resistance to surgical wound infection, impaired coagulation, delayed recovery, and postoperative shivering.Heat loss occurs primarily from the skin of a patient to the environment through several processes, including radiation, conduction and convection, and evaporation.Hypothermia decreases the overall metabolic rate by 8% per degc to about half the normal rate at 28degC. Oxygen demand drops. This allows aerobic metabolism to continue through greater periods of compromised oxygen supply, thereby reducing the production of anaerobic byproducts such as superoxide radicals and lactate.Hypothermia lowers intracranial pressures and cerebral perfusion pressure.Warming of fluids can only help to minimize heat loss.(Refer: <a href="

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