Environmental Cold and Man

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Abstract
Knowledge of basic physiological and pathological consequences of body cooling is far from complete and the interplay with anesthetic depression is likewise not clear. Most of the knowledge in this field has been gleaned from the deliberate cooling of patients for surgical operation or the treatment of medical conditions in which respiratory and circulatory abnormalities, and cerebral edema had already developed. The few isolated reports of the direct environmental effects of cold per se have been cited in this review. The importance of shivering and the role of nonshivering thermogenesis in acclimatization of man has been the subject of considerable debate. The manner in which animals adapt or adjust to cold has acquired new significance and accounts in no small part for man''s ability to survive against environmental cold.

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