Comment on “Effect of competence health cultivation on the prevention and control of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia”

Dear Editor,

We are very pleased to read the study by Wang R and his colleagues¹ in which they demonstrated that the medical staff can improve the quality of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia (IPH) prevention and management by health competence cultivation and feasible health management measures. However, there are still some issues that should be addressed according to my opinion.

To begin with, in the prospective nursing observation method section, this study recruited 120 patients who were divided into two groups: group A (guided by health competence) and group B (guided by routine nursing). Whether these 120 patients were randomized or not and the method of randomized grouping were not specified. It is not clear if the study has been approved by the Ethics Committee because the approval information was not provided throughout the study. In the statistical analysis section, the authors did not introduce the basic information of statistical methods and statistical software in detail.

Additionally, since this study was conducted on a small sample, how many patients in both groups had IPH-rated events? If IPH-rated events are infrequent, it may be appropriate to provide a specific number of cases who had IPH-rated events. In the results section discussing IPH-related events, the authors mentioned that the internal relationship analysis of the abnormal indicators reveals that hypothermia affects microcirculation metabolism and impairs body immunity. However, we fail to find these data on microcirculation metabolism and body immunity in the results section.

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REFERENCES

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  Wang R, Ping FM, Liu YM, He JL, Du SF, Shi PZ, et al. Effect of competence health cultivation on the prevention and control of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia. Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992). 2020;66(7):924-30. https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9282.66.7.924
  » https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9282.66.7.924

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  19 Nov 2021
• Date of issue
  Sept 2021

History

• Received
  29 July 2021
• Accepted
  04 Aug 2021