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NEUROSURGICAL ANESTHESIA

Intrathecal Temperature Is Closely Reflected by the Aortic, but Not by the Rectal, Temperature in a Rabbit Model of Spinal Cord Ischemia

Erich Knolle, MD^*, Ursula Windberger, DVM, Marek Ehrlich, MD, Georg Heinze, PhD, Matthias J. Oehmke, MD^*, Edvin Turkof, MD^||, Udo Losert, DVM, and Hans Georg Kress, MD PhD^*

*Department of Anesthesiology and General Intensive Care (B), Institute of Biomedical Research, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Medical Computer Sciences, and ||Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Vienna, Austria

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Erich Knolle, MD, Department of Anesthesiology and General Intensive Care (B), University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria. Address e-mail to erich.knolle{at}univie.ac.at

IMPLICATIONS: Experimental ischemic lesions in the lumbar spinal cord of the rabbit can be induced by inflating the balloon of a Swan-Ganz catheter in the abdominal aorta. The intrathecal temperature is significantly better reflected by the temperature from the thermistor of the catheter than by the rectal temperature.