“…This indicates that the incidence of hypothermia during pancreaticoduodenectomy was high, and that it was concentrated in the above four time periods. The overall incidence in this study was higher than that reported in studies by Desgranges [ 6 ], Dai [ 7 ], Zhao [ 8 ] and others. This may be because the participants in the present study were patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenal surgery and the complicated surgical procedures included the excision and reconstruction of intra-abdominal organs, resulting in a long duration of surgery (average 5.6 h).…”