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Prevalence, associated factors and treatment of post spinal shivering in a Sub-Saharan tertiary hospital: a prospective observational study

BACKGROUND: Surgery and anaesthesia cause shivering due to thermal dysregulation as a compensatory mechanism and is worsened by vasodilatation from spinal anaesthesia that redistributes core body heat. Due to paucity of data Mulago Hospital’s post spinal shivering burden is unknown yet it causes dis...

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Autores principales: Luggya, Tonny Stone, Kabuye, Richard Nicholas, Mijumbi, Cephas, Tindimwebwa, Joseph Bahe, Kintu, Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5070127/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27756210
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-016-0268-0