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LETHAL HYPOTHERMIC TEMPERATURES FOR DOG AND MAN
Author(s) -
Hegnauer Albert H.
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1959.tb49211.x
Subject(s) - citation , annals , medicine , library science , classics , art , computer science
Despite the considerable recent expansion in the study of the physiological effects of hypothermia during the past two decades, beginning with Fay's1 application of generalized hypothermia for therapeutic purposes, we are still without exact knowledge concerning either the mean lethal temperature or the exact nature of death in accidental exposure either to cold water or very cold air. Reasonably exact information is available only for the anesthetized dog subjected to cold-water immersion. The paucity of data on man is not due to lack of material upon which measurements could be made so much as to the fact that the appropriate thermometer was not in the hands of