{"id":392,"date":"2017-01-16T15:02:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T15:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deltexmedical.com\/decision_tree\/?page_id=392"},"modified":"2017-11-10T14:50:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:50:18","slug":"temperature","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.deltex-academy.com\/decision_tree\/temperature\/","title":{"rendered":"Temperature"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.entry-title {display:none;}<br \/><\/style>\n<style>.site-info {display: none;}<br \/><\/style>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003087;\">TEMPERATURE<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A study by Woods et al was undertaken in patients with shock with the aim to establish if a correlation exists between core\/peripheral temperature gradients and measured haemodynamic status using a pulmonary artery catheter.Patients with hypovolaemic,\u00a0septic and\u00a0cariogenic shock were included in the study.<\/p>\n<p>They concluded that there was no such correlation and suggest \u00a0&#8220;In addition, no predictable assessment of progress in individual patients can be based on changes in the gradient.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u200bThey also added &#8220;It is irrational and dangerous to proceed with the treatment of shock, using temperature gradient as a measure of the patient&#8217;s heamodynamic status&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #003087;\">References<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/3621960\" target=\"_blank\">Woods, I., et al., Danger of using core\/peripheral temperature gradient as a guide to therapy in shock. Crit Care Med, 1987. 15(9): p. 850-2.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEMPERATURE A study by Woods et al was undertaken in patients with shock with the aim to establish if a correlation exists between core\/peripheral temperature gradients and measured haemodynamic status using a pulmonary artery catheter.Patients with hypovolaemic,\u00a0septic and\u00a0cariogenic shock were included in the study. They concluded that there was no such correlation and suggest \u00a0&#8220;In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltex-academy.com\/decision_tree\/temperature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Temperature&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-392","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltex-academy.com\/decision_tree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltex-academy.com\/decision_tree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltex-academy.com\/decision_tree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltex-academy.com\/decision_tree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltex-academy.com\/decision_tree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltex-academy.com\/decision_tree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltex-academy.com\/decision_tree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/392\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltex-academy.com\/decision_tree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}