Peripheral neuropathy caused by severe hypothermia

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1019-1024

  Loseth S ^a,b   Bagenholm A ^a   Torbergsen, T ^a   Stalberg E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cold injury; Critical illness; Hypothermia; Neuropathy; Peripheral nerves

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANUS SPHINCTER DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; COLD INJURY; COLD SENSITIVITY; CONVALESCENCE; DEEP HYPOTHERMIC CIRCULATORY ARREST; DENERVATION; DIARRHEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENDURANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAND GRIP; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERESTHESIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PERONEUS NERVE PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; RESUSCITATION; RR INTERVAL; SEDATION; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SKIN BIOPSY; SURAL NERVE; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; TIBIA; TIBIAL NERVE; ULNAR NERVE; WHITE MATTER LESION;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; TIBIAL NERVE;

EID: 84876127503     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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