[Treatment of severe, accidental hypothermia with a warm air bed].
Patients suffering from severe accidental hypothermia are by many authors recommended to be rewarmed by extra-corporal circulation. Some authors argue in favour of other approaches in treatment of severe hypothermia, as long as the patient has a sufficient circulation. One of these is rewarming using forced air warming. We rewarmed a patient with severe hypothermia using forced air warming. The patient arrived with a core temperature of 25.9 degrees C and had sufficient circulation despite of atrial fibrillation. The patient was rewarmed to a core temperature of 36.1 degrees C over seven hours. No other arrhythmias or complications were observed.
Dehn
J
J
Arhus Universitetshospital, Arhus Amtssygehus, anaestesiologisk afdeling. jacobdehn@dadlnet.dk
Christensen
A J
AJ
Schønemann
N K
NK
D000059:Accidents; D006801:Humans; D007035:Hypothermia / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017694:Rewarming / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*