Lau A, et al. - Researchers determined the impacts of preoperative forced-air warming on intraoperative hypothermia among adult patients scheduled for elective, non-cardiac surgery under general anesthesia and were stratified by scheduled surgical duration (< 2.5 hr or ≥ 2.5 hr). Two groups were formed: pre-warming group and a control group with warmed blankets on request. They found that the overall intraoperative hypothermic exposure was attenuated consequent to a minimum of 30 min of preoperative forced-air convective warming. Although pre- and intraoperative forced-air warming failed to prevent the occurrence of redistribution hypothermia, greater preservation of intraoperative normothermia was noted with their integrated application vs intraoperative forced-air warming alone.