39. Postoperative Management by Prolonged Hypothermia in Brain Operation

Cardiovascular responses in prolonged hypothermia.

POPOVIC, V. P., AND KENNETH M. KENT. Cardiovascular yesponses in prolonged hypothermia. Am. J. Physiol. zag(6) : Io6g1o74* 1g65~--Rats cooled to a body temperature of 15 C live for g-10 hr. However, they do not survive the rewarming if the hypothermia has lasted more than 5 hr. Neither the cause of death in hypothermia after IO hr, nor the cause of resuscitation failure of animals rewarmed afte...

Prolonged Systole in a Patient with Hypothermia

A 59-year-old male with a history of traumatic C4 quadriplegia, seizure disorder, and adrenal insufficiency presented to our institution with recurrent seizures. During his hospital stay, he had labile body temperatures due to C4 spinal injury-mediated autonomic dysfunction. His M-Mode Echocardiogram revealed prolonged opening of aortic valve (AV) and late opening of mitral valve (MV) (Fig. 1A,...

Prolonged therapeutic hypothermia after traumatic brain injury in adults: a systematic review.

CONTEXT The benefits of therapeutic hypothermia as a treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI) remain unclear. OBJECTIVE To explore the effects of depth, duration, and rate of rewarming after discontinuation of hypothermia on mortality and neurologic outcome in adults after TBI. DATA SOURCES An electronic search of MEDLINE (OVID), EMBASE, Current Contents, the Cochrane library and a hand s...

Methadone produces prolonged postoperative analgesia.

Prolonged mild hypothermia therapy protects the brain against permanent focal ischemia.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The efficacy of hypothermic intervention for permanent focal ischemia has yet to be clarified. This study investigated the effect of a prolonged moderate or mild hypothermia on permanent focal ischemia in rats. METHODS Two permanent focal ischemia models in male Sprague-Dawley rats were used. Moderate (30 degrees C, in experiment 1) or mild (33 degrees C, in experiment ...