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Thermoregulation

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Thermoregulation i.e. regulation of temperature, is important in human beings because they need to maintain their core temperature despite being exposed to changes in the surrounding temperature. This homeothermy function is affected when the spinal cord is injured above the T6 and the patient display partial poikilothermy. Thus hypothermia is usually experienced by SCI patients but there is no research of whether it can also occur in two seasonal countries such as ours. In USA, Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) with an incidence of 10,000 cases/year and prevalence of 200,000 cases, is one of the most q,evastating injuries sustained by an individual. Thermoregulatory disturbances can only be considered to exist in an SCI patient if other cause of fever (above 380C), including infectious etiology, can be excluded. This paper is written to raise physicians's awareness of the thermoregula¬tion in humans and how it is affected when the spinal is injured because its management will consist of adjustment of the environment temperature, looking for conditions that can compromise the ability to regulate body temperature, and prescribing drugs cautiously so as not to modify the effectiveness of thermoregulation.

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Ebers Papyrus:16(2)2010:133-142

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Jakarta : FK. Universitas Tarumanegara., 2010

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9p.

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English

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0854-8862

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BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION

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