Rewarming in severe hypothermia

✍ Scribed by Douglas D Brunette; Steve Sterner; Ernest Ruiz

• Book ID: 104311232
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 119 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1097-6760
• DOI: 10.1016/s0196-0644(05)82592-2

✦ Synopsis

CORRESPONDENCE

cians to use the available techniques without due regard for the prevention of hypothermia. Prior work by Dr Iserson and others regarding the use of heated saline predilution offers an alternative to rapidly infusing 4 C blood. While our clinical setting offers the tremendous advantage of a new-generation blood and fluid warmer that will function at high flow rates, the use of heated saline predilution may well be an important adjunct for rapid infusion in many other settings.