Hypoxia and Medicine

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Summary: rate of ATP fall in proportion to the degree of hypothermia Many workers evaluated barbiturates and other therapies with brief 3 5 minute periods of total normothermic ischaemia or anoxia While these often demonstrate some benefit many underplay the fact that the benefit is of such brief duration as to be clinically irrelevant Only models of incomplete ischaemia

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