Temperatura corporal do paciente idoso no período pós-operatório

Abstract

: Objective: To identify fever in elderly patients submitted to orthopedic surgery during the postoperative period. Method: This is a retrospec‑ tive cohort study. Two hundred and sixty-two medical records of elderly people submitted to orthopedic surgery in the period from January 2013 to December 2015 were analyzed. Medical records from 60-year-old patients or older, with complete registration of their body temperature between the first and fifth postoperative days, were included. Results: We found that only 1% of the patients had fever during the postoperative period (38.7°C), and most of them were female patients (58%), aged around 74 years; 52% underwent osteosynthesis of the proximal third of the femur – an orthopedic sur‑ gical procedure that had as its main cause the proximal femur fracture (52%). Conclusion: The results found in the research indicate a necessary care, by means of which temperature is controlled after surgical procedures.