Efficacy of limb cooling on the salvage
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Mikihiro Kihara; James D. Schmelzer; Yoriko Kihara; Inge L. Smithson; Phillip A.
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Since peripheral nerve has a large ischemic safety factor, hypothermia, by reducing metabolic demands, is potentially an efficacious technique to rescue nerve from ischemic fiber degeneration (IFD). We therefore evaluated the influence of temperature on the severity of IFD resulting from a standard