The Wellcome Prize Essay for 1951 Local Cold Injury—Frostbite

The Problem of Frostbite in Civilian Medical Practice

“…16 The conditions and details of rapid rewarming are explicit. 22 The optimum temperature is 104° to 107.5° F. (40° to 42° C). The frozen extremity is placed in a water bath at this temperature.…”

“…The mechanism of this injury has been the subject of important controversy, since it bears on the type and potential efficacy of therapy. If, as Lewis, 22 Meryman 25 and many others believe, frostbite is essentially a thermal injury, the principal tissue damage has occurred by the time of rewarming and any or all subsequent measures will do little to alter the progression of pathologic events. If, however, vascular or other factors are of fundamental significance in the production of cell damage, there might be more hope for effective treatment.…”

Συνεχης Ενδαρτηριακη Χορηγησις Φαρμακευτικων Παραγοντων Επι Ισχαιμιας Των Κατω Ακρων

“…IX Συ.νέδριον Χειρουργικής, 1976. 23. Α. ΚΑΤΣΟΠΑΝΝΗ, Π. ΜΠΑΛΑ, Ν. ΞΗΡΟΜΕΡΙΤΗ, Π. ΚΑΤΣΙΩ ΤΗ, Π. ΙΩΑΝΝΙΔΗ: ' Η αξία τής μελέτης των δακτυλικών πιέσεων έπί των αγγειακών παθήσεων τών άκρων.…”