Reduction in the shivering threshold is proportional to spinal block height

Anesthesiology

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1327-1331

  Leslie, Kate ^a   Sessler, Daniel I ^b,c  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia: spinal; Temperature: core; hypothermia; shivering; skin; tympanic membrane; Thermoregulation: central thermoregulatory control

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHIVERING; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SHIVERING; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0029893030     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199606000-00008     Document Type: Article

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