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Case Reports
Rewarming a patient with accidental hypothermia and cardiac arrest using thoracic lavage.
- Johanna Turtiainen, Jari Halonen, Sakari Syväoja, and Tapio Hakala.
- Department of Surgery, North Karelia Central Hospital, Joensuu, Finland.
- Ann. Thorac. Surg. 2014 Jun 1;97(6):2165-6.
AbstractThe optimal treatment for severe accidental hypothermia is cardiopulmonary bypass because this offers the most rapid rate of rewarming. However, cardiopulmonary bypass therapy is not available in every hospital. In these circumstances, rewarming has to be achieved with other methods. We present a patient who was successfully rewarmed with thoracic lavage after he had been found with a core temperature of 21°C and asystole.Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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