Journal of Cellular Physiology
Volume 194 Issue 3, Pages 341 - 348
Published Online: 10 Jan 2003
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/102523100/abstract
"Sympathectomy is a technique about which we have limited knowledge, applied to disorders about which we have little understanding." Associate Professor Robert Boas, Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australasian College of Anaesthetists and the Royal College of Anaesthetists, The Journal of Pain, Vol 1, No 4 (Winter), 2000: pp 258-260
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Chemical sympathectomy-induced changes in TH-, VIP-, and CGRP-immunoreactive fibers
Heat loss due to sympathectomy-induced vasodilation
Hypothermia (a decrease in core temperature) is common in patients undergoing surgery with epidural anesthesia an is thought to result from heat loss to the cold environment due to sympathectomy-induced vasodilation.
Sympathectomy-induced vasodilation produced central hypothermia via net convection of the heat from the warmer central to cooler peripheral tissues. The net effect is an increase in peripheral tissue temperature at the expense of decreased central temperature.
Neural Blockade in Clinical Anesthesia and Management of Pain
Sympathectomy-induced vasodilation produced central hypothermia via net convection of the heat from the warmer central to cooler peripheral tissues. The net effect is an increase in peripheral tissue temperature at the expense of decreased central temperature.
Neural Blockade in Clinical Anesthesia and Management of Pain
By Michael J. Cousins, Phillip O. Bridenbaugh
Contributor Michael J. Cousins
Published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1997
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