Key result
Electrocardiogram changes during hypothermia may serve as a reliable warning for the onset of fatal ventricular fibrillation during heart and brain surgery.
Why the study?
Do changes in the electrocardiogram provide a reliable warning of ventricular fibrillation during hypothermia in heart and brain surgery?
Do changes in the electrocardiogram provide a reliable warning of ventricular fibrillation during hypothermia in heart and brain surgery?
ECG changes may serve as an important warning sign for the grave risk of ventricular fibrillation during hypothermic surgery.
ECG changes may flag VF risk in hypothermic surgery; leaves open whether they reliably predict events in current practice.
Death from ventricular fibrillation is the gravest risk that attends the current use of hypo- thermia in surgery of the heart and brain. Any reliable warning of its approach would clearly be important.
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Emslie-Smith et al. (1959) studied this question. Electrocardiogram changes during hypothermia may serve as a reliable warning for the onset of fatal ventricular fibrillation during heart and brain surgery.
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