Authors: M. A. Lfeituri; A. Studená; J. Bober; J. Firment; J. Capková Authors‘ workplace: Anesteziologická a resuscitačná klinika LF Univerzity P. J. Šafárika, Košice, prednosta MUDr. Jozef Firment, Chirurgická klinika LF Univerzity P. J. Šafárika, Košice, prednosta doc. MUDr. Juraj Bober Published in: Anest. intenziv. Med., , 2000, č. 1, s. 5-7 Category:
Forty adult patients of two groups scheduled for vascular and orthopedic surgery of the lower extremities were enrolled in a study comparing bodytemperature changes under either epidural (EA, 20 patients) or general (GA, 20 patients) anes thesia. Temperature recordings were obtained fromtympanic membrane (TM) and axilla, and were collected preoperatively, immediately after induction in anesthesia and then at twenty-min intervalsfor the first three hours of surgery. Body temperatures at the two measurement sites were decr eased gradually throughout the studied period in a similarpattern in both groups of patients. At the end of the third hour after induction in anesthesia, tympanic and axillary temperatures in the EA group weredecreased by –1.06 °C ± 0.12 (P
Key words: monitoring – tympanic temperature – axillary temperature – regional anesthes ia
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