@article{ref1,
title="Severe accidental hypothermia: rewarming strategy using a veno-venous bypass system and a convective air warmer",
journal="Intensive care medicine",
year="1999",
author="Bräuer, A. and Wrigge, H. and Kersten, J. and Rathgeber, J. and Weyland, W. and Burchardi, H.",
volume="25",
number="5",
pages="520-523",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To study a rewarming strategy for patients with severe accidental hypothermia using a simple veno-venous bypass in combination with a convective air warmer. SETTING: Eighteen beds in a university hospital intensive care unit. PATIENTS: Four adults admitted with a core temperature less than 30 degrees C. Hypothermia was caused by alcoholic intoxication in three patients and by drug overdose in one patient. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: All patients were rewarmed by a venovenous bypass and in three cases a convective air warmer was also used. At a bypass flow rate of 100-300 ml/min the mean increase in core temperature was 1.15 degrees C/h (Range: 1.1-1.2 degrees C/h). One patient died 2 days after rewarming as a consequence of a reactivated pancreatitis. The other three patients survived without neurological sequelae. CONCLUSION: This rewarming technique seems safe and effective and allowed the controlled rewarming of our patients who suffered from severe accidental hypothermia<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0342-4642",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}