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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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.
Emslie-Smith et al. (Wed,) reported a other. Electrocardiogram changes during hypothermia may serve as a reliable warning for the onset of fatal ventricular fibrillation during heart and brain surgery.