Anesthesiologists Marc Abreu, MD, David Silverman, MD, and colleagues at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., have identified an area of the brain that transmits brain temperature to an area of the skin and has the potential to prevent death from heat stroke and hypothermia and to detect infectious diseases, according to a Yale News report on the study.
The study, presented at the 2010 annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, showed the first noninvasive documentation of changes in brain temperature between sleep and awakening. The researchers found that a small area of skin near the eyes and noses is the point of entry to the "brain temperature tunnel," a connection to a thermal storage center in the brain.
Unlike other vital signs like heart rate, blood pressure and respiratory rate, which can be monitored continuously, core body temperature measurement cannot be currently measured continuously and non-invasively.
Read the report on the study by Yale University anesthesiologists.
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The study, presented at the 2010 annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, showed the first noninvasive documentation of changes in brain temperature between sleep and awakening. The researchers found that a small area of skin near the eyes and noses is the point of entry to the "brain temperature tunnel," a connection to a thermal storage center in the brain.
Unlike other vital signs like heart rate, blood pressure and respiratory rate, which can be monitored continuously, core body temperature measurement cannot be currently measured continuously and non-invasively.
Read the report on the study by Yale University anesthesiologists.
Read more on anesthesia:
-Misrepresented Publications Fairly Common Among Anesthesiology Residency Applicants
-Propofol Now Available From PharMEDium Services
-10 Most Read Anesthesia News Stories of 2010