Comparison of indirect calorimetry and direct heat flow discs results in measuring R+C heat loss in burned patients.
This study was carried out on 17 burned patients. Metabolic heat production, rectal and skin temperatures, and heat exchanges by R+C were measured. It was found that R+C heat loss takes into account 60 to 80% of the increased metabolic heat production. Two methods were used to measure R+C heat loss: calculation by indirect calorimetry and direct measurements by using heat flow discs. The direct relationship which exists between the results of these two methods showed the reliability of the use of heat flow discs for measuring R+C heat loss. This fast-responding techniques may allow the elaboration of a thermal setting system which could modulate ambient air temperature, thus limiting exagerated heat loss due to the skin lesions.
D001833:Body Temperature Regulation; D002056:Burns / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002153:Calorimetry, Indirect; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006358:Hot Temperature; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods