Cardiac hypothermia evaluated by ultrastructural studies in man

[Hypothermia in cardiac surgery].

Cardiac Mechanics Evaluated by Speckle Tracking Echocardiography

Natural myocardial markers, or speckles, originated from constructive and destructive interference of ultrasound in the tissues may provide early diagnosis of myocardial changes and be used in the prediction of some cardiac events. Due to its relatively temporal stability, speckles can be tracked by dedicated software along the cardiac cycle, enabling the analysis of the systolic and diastolic ...

Electrocardiographic changes in induced hypothermia in man.

Numerous papers have been published in the past few years describing the changes in the electro-cardiogram of animals submitted to hypothermia (Prec et al. and the pattern is now fairly well established. Information regarding changes in the human cardiogram, however, is scanty and has been derived from various sources. Electrocardiograms of patients suffering from severe exposure to cold have b...

Hypoglycaemia, hypothermia and shivering in man.

1. The present experiments were designed to elucidate the reasons for the fall in central body temperature during hypoglycaemia. 2. The first experiment was carried out at a room temperature of 25 degrees C on 11 male subjects. Hypoglycaemia was induced by infusion of insulin. Heat production (calculated from respiratory gas exchange) rose from a baseline of 5.10 +/- 0.13 kJ/min (mean +/- SEM) ...

Therapeutic hypothermia in cardiac arrest.

Approximately 275 000 Europeans per year experience out-ofhospital cardiac arrest, with huge differences in survival ranging from more than 30% in some cities to just a few percent in others. The main cause of these significant survival differences is differences in overall quality of the treatment, both pre-hospital during resuscitation and in-hospital after return of spontaneous circulation. ...