Use of infrared thermography in children with shock: A case series
| Autor: | Eleazar Samuel Kolosovas-Machuca, Jorge Simón, Francisco Javier González, Rosalina Rivera-Vega, Alejandra Ortiz-Dosal |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Case Report shock law.invention law Intensive care medicine Clinical syndrome lcsh:R5-920 infrared imaging pediatric patients Critically ill business.industry Skin temperature temperature General Medicine Intensive care unit Surgery Thermography Shock (circulatory) Radiology medicine.symptom lcsh:Medicine (General) business Perfusion |
| Zdroj: | SAGE Open Medical Case Reports SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, Vol 2 (2014) |
| ISSN: | 2050-313X |
| Popis: | Shock is a complex clinical syndrome caused by an acute failure of circulatory function resulting in inadequate tissue and organ perfusion. Digital infrared thermal imaging is a non-invasive technique that can detect changes in blood perfusion by detecting small changes in the temperature of the skin. In this preliminary study, eight pediatric patients (five boys, three girls), ages ranging from 6 to 14 years (average: 9.8 years), were admitted to the Intensive Care Unit at “Dr. Ignacio Morones Prieto” Central Hospital; here, the patients were examined using digital infrared thermal imaging. Patients in shock showed a significant decrease in distal temperature (at least 7°), compared to critically ill patients without shock. The latter group presented a skin temperature pattern very similar to the one previously reported for healthy children. The results show that infrared thermography can be used as a non-invasive method for monitoring the temperature in pediatric patients in intensive care units in order to detect shock in its early stages. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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