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[Changes in body temperature during anesthesia].

Abstract

The skin and esophageal temperature was investigated in 60 pregnant women on whom Cesarian section (cs) was performed. The patients were divided into four groups randomly in accordance with the type of anaesthesia. It was found that general, epidural and spinal anaesthesia during elective Cesarian section did not disturb thermal balance of the pregnant woman and parturient. The indicated types of anaesthesia did not have negative influence on the skin and esophageal temperature. The induced vasodilation of epidural and spinal anaesthesia caused an increase in the skin temperature with 1.7% of the initial values.

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R Radev, E V Gladun, V Ia Vartanov, L A Etsko. 1991. [Changes in body temperature during anesthesia].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1669285/

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