Discussion
POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS
In this study, we found no significant difference in postoperative complications and total hospitalization costs of patients with aggressive warming or routine warming. Although aggressive warming could reduce OR time (the sum of extubation time and turnover time) by 3.13 min, it did not result in additional operations in the DES model. Based on the current pricing policies, aggressive warming would be cost-effective if the healthcare system values the cost of each staff member to be at least 2.37 USD/min or the cost of FAW is to be less than 12.88 USD/piece.From the perspective of the payer, there was no significant difference in the total hospital costs in our study, which is due to the lack of difference in the morbidity of postoperative complications (