Perbedaan Efek Kompres Selimut Basah Dan Cold-pack Terhadap Suhu Tubuh Pasien Cedera Kepala Di Neurosurgical Critical Care Unit

The elevation of body temperature among patients with head injury may lead to increase total metabolism of the body. Such situation may worsen the patient condition, prolonged length of stay and increase risk of death. Cooling methods using wet blanket and cold-pack have been commonly adopted to reduce the body heat. However no empirical studies have proved these methods are effective to reduce high temperature of patients with head injury. This non-paired comparative study seeks to examine the difference of those two methods towards body temperature involving 24 patients with head injury that recruited using consecutive sampling technique. Results indicated that there is no significant difference of the temperature decrease after wet blanket and cold-pack application (p= 0,371). However, cold-pack still can be used as an alternative compress beside wet blanket application