LEK Exam: 2016 sesja wiosenna, subject: Intensywna terapia, question nr: 16

Indicate the false sentence concerning hypothermia:

A. hypothermia is diagnosed, when the core body temperature decreases below 35 degrees Celsius.

B. factor that predisposes to hypothermia is a drop in heat production due to old age.

C. diagnosis of brain death is possible only after the restoration of core body temperature to normal values.

D. human body at a temperature below 20 degrees Celsius is able to tolerate cardiac arrest for more than 1 hour without neurological damage.

E. hypothermic bradycardia is sensitive to atropine treatment.

Dział: Intensywna terapia