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Nursing Interventions

• The following are the therapeutic nursing interventions

for Hypothermia:

Interventions Rationales

Give extra covering (passive warming),

such as clothing and blankets; cover Warm blankets provide a passive method

postoperative patients with heat-retaining for rewarming.

blankets.

Give heated oral fluids for alert patients. Warm fluids produce a heat source.