The " eutermia " is maintaining body temperature of a person and is a term that is mainly used in medicine. There is talk of "euthermia" in the moments before or during a surgical intervention and it is extremely important for its success. Its use is not popular speech; it can be found in academic texts or medical essays.
"Eutermia" is also known as "normothermia" and is the maintenance of a patient's temperature. Etymologically speaking, "normothermia" comes, in its second part, from "therm", which in Greek means "quality of hot".
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The normal temperature of a human body, in a general context, is between 36.3 and 37.1 degrees Celcius. However, these numbers can vary during the day, dropping during the early morning and rising to half a degree at night.
From 36 to 33 degrees, it is considered mild hypothermia; between 32 and 28, moderate hypothermia and less than 28 degrees a severe hypothermia. Meanwhile, between 37.8 to 38.5, the fever is moderate; greater than 39 degrees, the fever is high; from 40 to 42 degrees, it is very high; from 42 degrees there is a circulatory collapse and from 42.6 degrees the denaturation of proteins and enzymes begins.
Keeping the temperature
In a surgical setting, maintaining a regular body temperature is critical to the patient's well-being. When the core temperature exceeds normal values, patients are at increased risk of complications during surgery, including surgical infections and putting their lives at risk.
The temperature may drop, causing hypothermia, increased wound infections, longer recovery times, or increased risk of mortality. In fact, the possibility of hypothermia incidence during an operation ranges between 26% and 90%.
This decrease in body temperature can occur because general or local anesthesia inhibits the thermal regulation mechanisms of the central nervous system in patients.
On the other hand, maintaining normothermia helps to avoid massive bleeding, reducing the need for transfusions in these patients. In any case, the patient's euthermia before anesthesia is easy to control with the appropriate equipment.
When the fever is normal, this state in medicine is known as "apyrexia", which is the absence and deprivation of any symptoms of high fever (not exceeding 38 degrees). Anyway, the state in which the person has a temporary fever is also called this way.
Normothermia in transplants
The normotermin system keeps the organ at its normal temperature (37 degrees), allowing it to consume the adequate amount of oxygen and nutrients.
Today it is a technique that is beginning to be applied, which would replace the most common practice today, which is based on immersing the organ in a cooling liquid at a very low temperature.
With the normothermia technique, the organ is submerged in a preservation solution that sometimes makes up blood, transporting the oxygen and nutrients necessary for its proper functioning.
Synonyms
Some words that mean the same as "euthermia" are "normothermia," "normal temperature," "healthy," "stable," "no fever," or "afebrile."
Antonyms
Meanwhile, words that mean the opposite of "euthermia" are "fever", "feverish", "feverish", "feverish", "fever", "temperature", "lack of temper", "hypothermia" or "burning".
Usage examples
-"The operation was a success. The patient remained euthermic throughout the intervention. '
- «She maintained a euterminate according to the parameters, but suddenly her body temperature dropped and she entered a mild hypothermic phase».
- "Maintaining eutermia is essential to be able to perform this operation without jumping over."
References
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- Marías Fernández Prada. "Effective application of normothermia". Recovered from: Seguridaddelpaciente.es
- Nortmotermina, a revolutionary technique for transplanting organs in operation. Recovered from: consalud.es