Biventricular Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy in a Patient Presenting with New Onset Seizure: Case Report by Oghenerukevwe Odiete, Ramanna Nagendra, Mark A. Lawson, Henry Okafor

“…On the second day of her telemetry-monitored hospitalization, she suffered a witnessed ventricular fibrillation arrest requiring emergency direct-current cardioversion and induced hypothermia. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) showed isolated left ventricular (LV) noncompaction and depressed LV systolic function. …”
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Comparison of two active warming techniques on body temperature in healthy, anesthetized dogs premedicated with acepromazine or dexmedetomidine: A pilot study. by Jacob P Rastas, Qianqian Zhao, Rebecca A Johnson

“…Glabrous skin on paws may facilitate thermoregulation from this area and is a potential target for interventions attenuating hypothermia. This pilot study aimed to compare efficacy of an innovative warming device placed on the front paws (AVAcore; AVA), with no warming methods (NONE) and conventional truncal warming methods (CONV; circulating water blanket/forced air warmer) on rectal temperature and anesthetic recovery times. …”
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Controversies in the Anesthetic Management of Intraoperative Rupture of Intracranial Aneurysm by Tumul Chowdhury, Andrea Petropolis, Marshall Wilkinson, Bernhard Schaller, Nora Sandu, Ronald B. Cappellani

“…The neuroprotective effects of various factors, including hypothermia, various anesthetic/pharmacologic agents, and burst suppression, remain poorly understood and have yet to be further elucidated. …”
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A Health Economic Analysis Exploring the Cost Consequence of Using a Surgical Site Infection Prevention Bundle for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty in Germany by Rhodri Saunders, Rafael Torrejon Torres, Henning Reuter, Scott Gibson

“…Major cost drivers were the cost of inpatient SSI care, general ward, and operating room, and the increased risk of an SSI associated with unintended, intraoperative hypothermia. Varying the effectiveness factor from 10% to 130% did not substantially impact model outcomes…”
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Antistaphylococcal Efficacy of Cefepime, Meropenem, and Piperacillin-Tazobactam in Patients with Polymicrobial Infection with MSSA Bacteremia or Pneumonia by Laila M. Najia, Eric Pyles, Arnaldo Lopez-Ruiz, Bibidh Subedi

“…The primary outcome is defined as the resolution of fever of ≥100.4°F, hypothermia (≤95°F), leukocytosis (WBC °>° 12,000 cells/mm3), and leukopenia with WBC °<° 4,000 cells/mm3. …”
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Ethanol Extract of Ampelopsis brevipedunculata Rhizomes Suppresses IgE-Mediated Mast Cell Activation and Anaphylaxis by Ji-Yeong Park, Min-Jong Kim, Young-Ae Choi, Seung Woong Lee, Soyoung Lee, Yong Hyun Jang, Sang-Hyun Kim

“…In ASA model, oral administration of ABE (1, 10, and 100 mg/kg) attenuated the anaphylactic responses, such as hypothermia, serum histamine, and IgE productions. In PCA model, ABE also suppressed the plasma extravasation and swelling. …”
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Comparison of Chest-to-Back Skin-to-Skin Contact and Chest-to-Chest Skin-to-Skin Contact on the Risk of Oxygen Desaturation and Change in Heart Rate in Low Birth Weight and/or Prem... by Sisay Gere, Yemane Berhane, Alemayehu Worku

“…Chest-to-chest (CC) skin-to-skin contact (SSC) is a widely used method of SSC to prevent low birth weight (LBW) and/or premature babies with the risk of hypothermia. However, very recently, a study has also shown that the chest-to-back (CB) SSC is also useful for such a purpose. …”
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Analgesic efficacy of hydromorphone in American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) by Scott E. Henke, David B. Wester, Cord B. Eversole, Javier O. Huerta, Clayton D. Hilton, Kurt K. Sladky

“…., naris and lateral mandible, respectively).ConclusionAlligators did not appear to experience clinically relevant respiratory depression, hypothermia, or other adverse reactions. Therefore, hydromorphone shows promise as an analgesic option to be administered under painful conditions in American alligators.…”
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Damage control resuscitation: how it’s done and where we can improve. A view of the Brazilian reality according to trauma professionals by MARCELO AUGUSTO FONTENELLE RIBEIRO JUNIOR, LETICIA STEFANI PACHECO, JUAN CARLOS DUCHESNE, JOSE GUSTAVO PARREIRA, SHAHIN MOHSENI

“…Damage Control Resuscitation (DCR), derived from military protocols, focuses on early hemorrhage control and volume replacement to combat the “diamond of death” (hypothermia, hypocalcemia, acidosis, coagulopathy). …”
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Utilidad de la procalcitonina como biomarcador en cirugía cardiaca by Mario Castaño, Pasquale Maiorano, Laura Castillo, Blanca Meana, Belén Ramos, Elio Martín-Gutiérrez, Javier A. Gualis

“…Surgical trauma and cardiopulmonary bypass induced inflammation, as well as hypothermia or vasoconstrictors, stimulate the release of procalcitonin in uncomplicated postoperative patients, so its usefulness may be reduced. …”
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Olive oil ameliorates allergic response in murine ovalbumin-induced food allergy by promoting intestinal mucosal immunity by Yu Ma, Ming Liu, Donghui Li, Jie Li, Zixin Guo, Yunjun Liu, Shengnan Wan, Yixiang Liu

“…An allergy model was subsequently constructed for analysis, the results of which showed that the olive oil reduced the scores of allergic symptoms in the mice, and up-regulated the hypothermia and the decline in the immune organ index. …”
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Emergency surgical coronary revascularization in patients with acute myocardial infarction by B.М. Todurov, G.I. Kovtun, S.O. Sheludko, L.G. Bitsadze, L.G. Bitsadze, O.V. Revenko, A.O. Shpachuk, O.V. Pantazi, О.М. Postupalsky

“…CABG surgery technique in patients with AMI is safe when using artificial ventricular fibrillation with intermittent aortic clamping and moderate hypothermia.…”
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Significant Cytokine mRNA Expression Changes Immediately after Initiation of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation by Mareen Braunstein, Martina Williamson, Thomas Kusmenkov, Jürgen Landes, Peter Biberthaler, Karl-Georg Kanz, Wolfgang Böcker, Viktoria Bogner

“…TNF-alpha, IL-8, IL-10, and IL-1ra mRNA levels were quantified by RT-qPCR and compared to multiple organ failure, 30-day survival, and the induction of therapeutic hypothermia (TH). Results. 25 patients (63 ± 15 years) were enrolled presenting a characteristic time-dependent cytokine profile in the early postresuscitation period. …”
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Prevalence of prolonged transitional neonatal hypoglycemia and associated factors in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Solomon Demis Kebede, Amare Kassaw, Tigabu Munye Aytenew, Kindu Agmas, Demewoz Kefale

“…Significant factors associated with PTNHG included preterm birth (AOR = 3.31; 95% CI: 2.57-4.04), hypothermia (AOR = 3.41; 95% CI: 2.19-4.62), being an infant of a diabetic mother (IDM) (AOR = 4.71; 95% CI: 2.15-7.26), delayed breastfeeding initiation beyond one hour (AOR = 3.26; 95% CI: 2.03-4.49), and pathological jaundice (AOR = 2.37; 95% CI: 1.91-2.84).…”
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Determination of Electrolytes in Critical Illness Patients at Different pH Ranges: Whom Shall We Believe, the Blood Gas Analysis or the Laboratory Autoanalyzer? by Christopher Hohmann, Roman Pfister, Kathrin Kuhr, Julia Merkle, Julian Hinzmann, Guido Michels

“…All patients suffered an infarct-related cardiogenic shock and were intubated and not under therapeutical hypothermia at the time of blood collection. We used scatter plots to compare different distributions of sodium and potassium values between the methods. …”
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Clinical and Radiological Presentations of Various Pulmonary Infections in Hospitalized Diabetes Mellitus Patients: A Prospective, Hospital-Based, Comparative, Case Series Study by Pravesh Vishwakarma, Kauser Usman, Rajiv Garg, Jyoti Bajpai, Rishi Sethi, Akshyaya Pradhan

“…Diabetics more frequently presented with extreme temperatures (hypothermia or hyperpyrexia) (p=0.022), lower serum sodium levels (p=0.047), and lower partial arterial pressure (p<0.001) than nondiabetics. …”
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Temperature and repeated catecholamine surges modulate regional wall motion abnormalities in a rodent takotsubo syndrome model by Ermir Zulfaj, AmirAli Nejat, Abdulhussain Haamid, Aaron Espinosa, Ahmed Elmahdy, Tetiana Pylova, Sandeep Jha, Björn Redfors, Elmir Omerovic

“…Hyperthermia increased RWMA incidence, while hypothermia attenuated RWMA (p = 0.008). A repeated catecholamine surge exacerbated RWMA in the acute phase (p = 0.042) but not during recovery (p = 0.308), with reduced RWMA susceptibility after recovery (RR 0.45, 95%CI; 0.27–0.76). …”
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A Survey on the Organization and Operation of Level II/III Neonatal Intensive Care Units in Greece: A Comparison Between 2004 and 2022 by Kosmas Sarafidis, Nicoletta Iacovidou, Eleftheria Hatzidaki, Ilias Chatziioannidis, Gabriel Dimitriou

“…In 2022, new treatment modalities, like therapeutic hypothermia, were introduced, and most NICUs reported offering long-term follow-up programs. …”
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Reverse transcriptase inhibitors diminish systemic proinflammatory responses to bacterial pathogens by Karthik Hullahalli, Katherine G. Dailey, Ryan Acbay, Masataka Suzuki, George I. Balazs, Matthew K. Waldor

“…Moreover, in a model of lethal LPS shock, NRTI administration prevented hypothermia and death. Together, our observations reveal that NRTIs can potently impede systemic inflammatory responses during Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial infections. …”
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Effect of intraoperative noise isolation on postoperative nausea and vomiting in patients undergoing gynecological laparoscopic surgery: protocol for a randomized controlled trial by Chong Fu, Fan Xia, Zihan Yan, Han-bing Xu, Wei-ming Zhao, Yi-shan Lei, Chang Xu, Wen-wen Huo, Duo-duo Tao, Juan Wang, Xi-sheng Shan, Ke Peng, Hong Liu, Fu-hai Ji, Hua-yue Liu

“…Secondary outcomes include PONV severity at 24 and 48 h, antiemetic use, pain scores, need for rescue analgesia, Quality of Recovery-15 (QoR-15) scores, Richards-Campbell Sleep Questionnaire (RCSQ) scores, hemodynamic interventions, extubation time, length of stay in PACU and hospital, adverse events (hypertension, hypotension, bradycardia, tachycardia, desaturation after extubation, postoperative shivering, emergence agitation, allergic reactions, severe arrhythmias arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, hypothermia), patient satisfaction, and postoperative complications based on the Postoperative Morbidity Survey (POMS). …”
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