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Spinal Cord Hypothermia by Localized Perfusion Cooling

Nature volume 210, pages 1059–1060 (1966)Cite this article

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A NEW technique has been developed which will rapidly and selectively cool the mammalian spinal cord while the temperature of the body core remains near normothermic levels. This becomes specially relevant in the light of the utilization of profound hypothermic levels1 and isolated cerebral perfusion techniques in neurovascular surgery2,3. With this method both acute and chronic preparations can be used to investigate the neurophysiological and cardiovascular events associated with spinal cord cooling as well as to evaluate the efficacy of hypothermia in clinical situations associated with spinal cord trauma and disease.

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  1. Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital and Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio

    MAURICE S. ALBIN, ROBERT J. WHITE, GEORGE E. LOCKE & HENRY E. KRETCHMER

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ALBIN, M., WHITE, R., LOCKE, G. et al. Spinal Cord Hypothermia by Localized Perfusion Cooling. Nature 210, 1059–1060 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2101059a0

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