In addition, patients may experience anxiety related to something going wrong during or after the surgery (Arakelian et al., 2018 Forsberg, Engstrom et al., 2014 Forsberg, Soderberg et al., 2014). During this phase patients’ might sense feelings of worry, loss of control, and vulnerability, especially prior to anaesthesia, making them dependent on staff (Forsberg, Engstrom et al., 2014). The preoperative phase begins when the decision is made for the patient to undergo surgery (Leinonen & Leino-Kilpi, 1999).
In this article, passive and active warming is termed as heat conservation measures (HCM). To reduce the risk of hypothermia, health-care professionals should maintain a patient’s normal body temperature by using active and passive warming (Hooper et al., 2009 NICE, 2016). Perioperative hypothermia is common in connection with surgery, and occurs when core temperature fall below 36☌, a temperature that places patients at risk for several adverse events (Hooper et al., 2009 NICE, 2016 Sessler, 2016). When the patient´s need of comfortable temperature is met then feelings of security and sense of well-being emerged. The phenomenon is also related to feelings of confidence about receiving the best care as well as being exposed and vulnerable. An ability to independently influence one´s own temperature comfort can strengthen the patient, whereas the opposite entails suffering in silence. When patients have the ability to change their own temperature comfort, they feel independent.Ĭonclusion: The individual feeling of temperature comfort could be affected or changed to discomfort during the perioperative context, and an intervention is required to avoid suffering due to the care. Despite the body is covered there are feelings of vulnerability. When patients’ needs of temperature comfort is fulfilled it give a sense of well-being and calmness. Results: Warmth and coldness in connection with surgery means an expectation to maintain one´s daily life temperature comfort. The data consisted of 16 in-depth interviews with patients from four hospitals in Sweden. Methods: A reflective lifeworld research (RLR) approach founded on phenomenology and the methodological principles of openness, flexibility, and bridling were used. Purpose: The aim was to describe patients’ lived experience of warmth and coldness in connection with surgery.
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