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+== Therapeutic Cooling==
+<!-- Discussed in Nov 21.08_ ICU team meeting -->
+If a patient is '''actively cooled for therapeutic reasons''', use the most recent temp just '''prior  to''' start of cooling.
+* If no temp is available before cooling initiated, then use a temp at '''4 hours after''' cooling stopped.
+**cardiac arrests may having the cooling protocol applied. See [[BRR]] for more information about special tagging of these patients.
+=== from OR ===
+If a patient is arriving from the OR cold, use the actual worst temperature since this low temp could also be a negative result of "having been open" for a long time.
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-== Therapeutic Cooling==
-<!-- Discussed in Nov 21.08_ ICU team meeting -->
-If a patient is '''actively cooled for therapeutic reasons''', use the most recent temp just '''prior  to''' start of cooling.
-* If no temp is available before cooling initiated, then use a temp at '''4 hours after''' cooling stopped.
-**cardiac arrests may having the cooling protocol applied. See [[BRR]] for more information about special tagging of these patients.
-=== from OR ===
-If a patient is arriving from the OR cold, use the actual worst temperature since this low temp could also be a negative result of "having been open" for a long time.