temperature increases

Re: temperature increases

Gillian Mostyn — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:55:25 GMT

only where the body temp is so very low that the body needs time to sort out its circulation - sudden surface warming may cause periferal vasodilation which can lead to a massive, and fatal, drop in blood pressure. This is only likely to happen with severe and prolonged hypothermia - such as being immersed in a frozen lake for too long etc.. I have no idea if there is an actual rate of warming - the main thing is to warm gradually and preferably using enemas etc rather than just periferal.

Re: temperature increases

sarah rogers — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 09:41:34 GMT

thanks- thats what we do. am just doing a gold standard of care presentation, and thought i read somewhere ( a few years ago!! when i was training) that their was a specific increase in degress C every hour!

Re: temperature increases

Stuart McQueen RVN MBVNA — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 09:37:23 GMT

haha. I know that feeling.

my answer would be as quickly as possibly... when we get hypothermic animals in I throw every method of heating them up as possible... hot hands, heat pads, blankets... if they're on IVFT I usually stick a hot hand around the giving set at the animals leg - heating the fluids up doesn't tend to make a huge difference - the heat is lost by the time the fluids have travelled down the giving set...

hope this helps - although it doesn't actually answer your question! haha

Re: temperature increases

sarah rogers — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 09:32:59 GMT

opps!! sorry meant hypothermic- been on call since 8.30 yesterday- a little tired!!

Re: temperature increases

Stuart McQueen RVN MBVNA — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 09:26:51 GMT

surely you'd want to raise the temp only if they were HYPOTHERMIC?