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Nursing Interventions

• The following are the therapeutic nursing interventions

for Hypothermia:

Interventions Rationales

Body temperature should be raised no

more than a few degrees per hour.

Vasodilation occurs as the patient’s core
Control the heat source according to the
temperature increases leading to a
patient’s physical response.
decrease in BP. Hypotension, metabolic

acidosis, and dysrhythmias are

complications of rewarming.