CiteSpace-based visual analysis of hypothermia studies in surgical patients.
Yifeng Zhou, Zhengzhong Hu, Hao Yuan and 2 others
PMID 37565383WHAT IT FOUND
Research on perioperative hypothermia has grown, with surgical site infection, prevention, temperature management and care as the most active themes.
It maps the literature and does not test what clinicians should do at the bedside.
Key findings
01The field's research output grew over 20 years, peaking at 98 articles in 2018.
02The United States had the most publications, with 448 articles, and the top five institutions were all in the United States.
03Surgical site infection was the keyword with the highest burst intensity and was still used after 20 years.
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What it does not show
It included only English articles from the Web of Science core collection and did not use PubMed or China Knowledge Network, so it may miss relevant literature. It analysed publication counts, authors, institutions, journals, keywords and citations, not patient outcomes or nursing interventions. Clinical numbers in the paper, such as 20 to 90% incidence and 19% versus 6% infection rates, are cited from other sources and are not results of this analysis. Software settings and data-source limits mean the map may not fully represent the field.
Declared interests
The authors reported no potential conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as proof that warming or temperature-management protocols prevent surgical site infection. It maps the literature; the infection and temperature figures are cited from earlier studies and consensus statements, not measured in this analysis.