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In adults’ patients undergoing general anesthesia, does forced-air warming before or during induction compared to passive blanket warming decrease incidence of hypothermia and improve intraoperative blood pressure stability during intraoperative period through PACU discharge?

Population: Adult patients undergoing surgery under general anesthesia, Intervention: forced-air warming before or during induction, Comparator: passive blanket warming, Outcome: decrease incidence of hypothermia and improve intraoperative blood pressure stability Timeframe: During intraoperative period through PACU discharge.  

Characteristics of the Included Studies

In this section you will provide an individual synopsis of each of the articles you selected. This will include a detailed paragraph or two for each article in which you describe the purpose, sample/setting, methods, results, conclusions, and strengths and limitations of each study. You must also identify the level of evidence using Polit and Beck (2020) evidence hierarchy. This hierarchy of evidence can be found in your text and this will be used for completing the literature matrix (Appendix).

If you use between 10 articles, this section should be a minimum of 10 pages but can be much longer based on your literature review.

Synthesis of the Literature

In this section of the literature review, you will group your studies based common traits. You should have between two and four subsections. You may choose to compare studies that have similar outcomes or use similar modalities in a similar setting. You may also choose to compare methodologies.

The goal of this section is not to repeat what you wrote in the Characteristics of the Included Studies section. Rather you are expected to integrate the findings of your research to provide a meaningful understanding of the topic.

All 10-15 studies should be included in this section and this should be a minimum of 4 pages in length and can be much longer depending on your topic.