Non-invasive Muscle Temperature Control during Cooling

Invasive and Non-Invasive Detection of Bias Temperature Instability

Treatment of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer

Ta tumors — Ta tumors are noninvasive papillary lesions that are confined to the urothelium and have not penetrated the basement membrane. These papillary tumors usually present as low-grade lesions that frequently recur multiple times prior to becoming invasive. The natural history of patients with Ta tumors without other evidence of invasive disease or Tis was illustrated by a retrospective s...

Baroreflex control of muscle sympathetic nerve activity during skin surface cooling.

Skin surface cooling improves orthostatic tolerance through a yet to be identified mechanism. One possibility is that skin surface cooling increases the gain of baroreflex control of efferent responses contributing to the maintenance of blood pressure. To test this hypothesis, muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA), arterial blood pressure, and heart rate were recorded in nine healthy subject...

Measurement of human brain temperature changes during cooling

Introduction Therapeutic brain hypothermia is used with increasing frequency as a tool to mitigate neurologic injury [1]. It has been shown that moderate cooling of the brain after hypoxia-ischemia can reduce damage and improve functional outcome [2, 3]. Recently a new method for selective brain cooling was described and prototype device was tested on the pigs [4, 5]. Brain temperature decreasi...

Hypercapnia increases core temperature cooling rate during snow burial.

Previous retrospective studies report a core body temperature cooling rate of 3 degrees C/h during avalanche burial. Hypercapnia occurs during avalanche burial secondary to rebreathing expired air, and the effect of hypercapnia on hypothermia during avalanche burial is unknown. The objective of this study was to determine the core temperature cooling rate during snow burial under normocapnic an...