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This 4 page paper examines an article appearing in the International Journal of Nursing Practice. The article concerns an experiment regarding hypothermia. No bibliography.
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Johnson, and Langdon (2000) examine a new method of treating hypothermia. In this experiment, a forced warm air device is used for patients and this is compared with the intervention
of just utilizing warm blankets to effect a temperature change. This is implemented to enhance thermoregulation during the post-operative period. The purpose of the study essentially is to discern any
differences in the rewarming rate between the two interventions. The goal is to find out if the forced warm air would cool the patient more rapidly and thus becoming a
viable alternative to the traditional use of blankets. In this study, it seems that the independent variables are gender and type of surgery while the dependent variable is rewarming time.
The sample selected included only surgical patients and this in and of itself limited the sample or at least gave authors less control. Subjects are chosen for the intervention when
they leave the OR as it is not known what type of hypothermic reaction will be experienced after surgery. Again, this method limits choice to an extent. Methodology includes strict
criterion for a control and experimental group which would be formed from the sample. The selection criteria is also that the patients had to have gone through surgery (orthopedic, gynecological,
urological, vascular) of at least twenty minutes in duration. They had to have an anesthetic and those patients who suffered from severe hypothermia were not included in the study. Authors
explain that while there was no attempt to categorize patient by type of surgery, group two did have more orthopedic patients. The sampling method does seem to reflect
the population identified in the problem statement as the problem does pertain to hypothermia and the sample does include only patients with that condition. At the same time, while not
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