Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory. Aerospace Medical Division, Air Force Systems Command. Fort Wainwright, Alaska. Technical documentary report TDR-62-43. 12 p.
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Duke University medical Center, Durham, N.C.
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Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory. Aerospace Medical Division, Air Force Systems Command. Fort Wainwright, Alaska. Technical documentary report TDR-62-43. 12 p.
A study was carried out to establish whether or not rats could be regularly carried to deep hypothermia and then rewarmed without an excessively high mortality rate. A technique for inducing deep hypothermia is described. Rats were cooled to deep hypothermia and revived in a high enough percentage to permit quantitative estimates of other experimental situations. Hypoxia during cooling and warming is apparently important in the improvement of mortality figures. Circulatory arrest of 60 minutes or less is well tolerated during deep hypothermia.