Use of an Esophageal Heat Exchanger to Maintain Core Temperature during Burn Excisions and to Attenuate Pyrexia on the Burns Intensive Care Unit

Figure 1

Haemodynamics and temperatures for Procedure 1. Systolic pressure (mmHg): ; diastolic pressure (mmHg): ; heart rate (beats per minute): ; target temperature (°C): grey solid line; ambient temperature (°C): grey dashed line; peripheral temperature (°C): black solid line; Bladder Temperature (°C): black dashed line. The ambient operating room temperature was maintained at 30°C for the first 90 minutes of surgery, a typically high temperature for a burns operating room intended to reduce evaporative heat loss, and then reduced to a more comfortable 26°C, with no drop in patient core or peripheral temperature over the remaining four and a half hours.