Prevention of Perioperative Hypothermia in Transurethral Resection Under Spinal Anaesthesia

Inadvertent perioperative hypothermia is probably the most common anaesthetic complication. Its appearance increases the morbidity of the surgical patient, increasing the incidence of cardiac events or perioperative blood loss and causes a greater time of recovery from anaesthesia. Prewarming is the most effective measure to prevent hypothermia and maintain intraoperative normothermia. However, prewarming in patients submitted to spinal anesthesia is still a weak recommendation and the optimal prewarming time has not been elucidated. Due to the searching of optimal prewarming time and the lack of evidence about the efficiency of prewarming in patients submitted to transurethral resection under spinal anaesthesia, the conductance of this clinical trial is justified.