Management of Severe Hyperthermia with Chlorpromazine and Refrigeration
- 1 March 1956
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 254 (9) , 426-428
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195603012540906
Abstract
CONSIDERABLE interest has recently centered around the use of chlorpromazine in medicine. Many of the properties of this drug have been studied, and its use in clinical practice in this country in such conditions as the management of vomiting, hiccups, mental and emotional disturbances, intractable pain and alcoholism has frequently been discussed in the literature. Undoubtedly, the possibilities of chlorpromazine have not been exhausted, and it bids fair to achieve dramatic results in other major applications. In France its surgical indications have been particularly emphasized, for under the name of "artificial hibernation" Laborit and Huguenard1 , 2 introduced it as an antishock . . .Keywords
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- Production of HypothermiaBMJ, 1953