HYPOTHERMIA FOR NEUROSURGERY (with particular reference to Profound Hypothermia and Cerebral Arterial Inflow Occlusion)
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- 1 February 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in British Journal of Anaesthesia
- Vol. 36 (2) , 77-82
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bja/36.2.77
Abstract
The authors' experience using hypothermia for neurosurgical procedures over a three-year period is described. For the majority of patients in whom hypothermia is indicated, some conventional form of surface cooling to approximately 30°C is satisfactory. In a smaller number of cases profound hypothermia, or hypothermia to 30°C with interruption of the carotid and vertebral blood flow, has been employed. In the latter technique the great vessels are temporarily occluded after median sternotomy. Both these series of cases are too small for statistical comparison.Keywords
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