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Effect of hypothermia on cerebral damage resulting from cardiac arrest

1960; Elsevier BV; Volume: 6; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0002-9149(60)90231-9

1879-1913

Kenneth B. Wolfe,

Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control

Abstract Cerebral damage was produced in twenty normal dogs by a five-minute period of ventricular fibrillation followed by resuscitation. Ten dogs were maintained at normothermic conditions and ten were cooled to 31 °c. and maintained at this temperature for twenty-four hours following resuscitation. All ten uncooled dogs died. Three of the ten cooled dogs survived without cerebral damage and four of the cooled dogs had their lives prolonged by cooling.