Modification of body temperature regulation in surgical patients

Title: Modification of body temperature regulation in surgical patients
Creator: White, Saxon William
Relation: Clinical Science For Surgeons p. 189-193
Publisher: Butterworths
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 1981
Description: Surgical patients confront surgeons with a variety of body temperatures. Since man is a homotherm with a remarkable capacity to maintain the rectal temperature at 37.6±0.6°C, deviations from these values suggest problems of temperature regulation which may have important diagnostic and management implications. Temperature regulation is mainly a function of neural control, and in view of the rate of change in our understanding of neural control systems and their component parts, this section summarizes current views of temperature control. Reference will also be made to problems of anaesthesia, shock and fever, and how these common stresses affect thermoregulation.
Subject: thermoregulation; body temperatures; surgical patients; temperature regulation
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/938725
Identifier: uon:12659
Identifier: ISBN:0409490334
Language: eng