Influence of oral premedication and prewarming on core temperature of cardiac surgical patients: a prospective, randomized, controlled trial

Table 1 Characteristics of patients receiving no prewarming (control group) and active prewarming with forced-air (prewarming group). Mean ± SD or Median and [IQR] as appropriate

Parameter	Control group	Treatment group	p-value
Age [yrs]	67.5 [62.25–72.0]	66.5 [60.25–71.0]	0.92
Sex [M/F]	15/9	20/4	0.19
Weight [kg]	75.6 ± 13.2	82.4 ± 10.9	0.06
Height [cm]	1.72 ± 0.10	1.74 ± 0.07	0.24
BMI [kg.m⁻²]	26.4 [23.5–27.8]	27.8 [24.3–28.7]	0.08
ASA-Classification	3 [3–3]	3 [3–3]	0.65

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