Educational

Links

New England Journal of Medicine
The Journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists
The Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses

Suggested Readings

Jonathan Jagid, MD, Andrea Castelblanco, MD*, and John W. Kuluz, MD*, Head cooling decreases brain temperature after traumatic brain injury, Departments of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics*, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33101, 2004.

The Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest Study Group,
Mild therapeutic hypothermia to improve the neurologic outcome after cardiac arrest, NE Journal of Medicine, 2002 346: 549-556.

Sessler DI, Kurz A, Lenhardt R, Perioperative normothermia to reduce the incidence of surgical-wound infection and shorten hospitalization, NE Journal of Medicine, 1996-2003; 334 (19): 1209-1215. Brief Summary

Baker KZ, Young WL, Deliberate mild intraoperative hypothermia for craniotomy, Anesthesiology, 1994; 81: 361-367.

Marion DW, Obrist WD, et al. The use of moderate therapeutic hypothermia for patients with severe head injuries: a preliminary report, J of Neurology, 1993; 79(3): 354-362.

Yamashia I, Mild hypothermia ameliorated ubiquitin synthesis and prevents delayed neural death in the gerbil hippocampus, Stroke, 1991; 22: 1574-1581.

Murakami W, External Rewarming and Age in Mildly Hypothermic Patients after Cardiac Surgery, Heart and Lung, 1995; 24(5): 2347-2358.

Sanford M, Rewarming Cardiac Surgical Patients: Warm Water vs. Warm Air, American Journal of Critical Care, 1997; 6(1): 39-45.

Michlovitz, Susan L, Thermal Agents in Rehabilitation, F.A. Davis Co., Philadelphia, 1986.

Lehmann, Justus F, Therapeutic Heat and Cold, 3rd Ed., Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1982.