Poikilothermia Causes & Reasons

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Possible Causes

Compartment Syndrome

Poikilothermia, paralysis, pallor, and pulselessness late findings indicative of complete ischemia and poor prognosis. 4 Evaluation: Assess ABCs and obtain VS. [emdocs.net]

Poikilothermia Difference in the injured area’s warmth compared to the contralateral location. [pedemmorsels.com]

Historically, the mnemonic memory device for compartment syndrome is the "5 Ps" (pain, paresthesia [change in sensation], pallor [pale coloration], paralysis, and poikilothermia [medicinenet.com]

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Guillain-Barré Syndrome

Electrophysiology plays a determinant role in Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) diagnosis, classification of the subtypes and in establishing prognosis. In the last three decades, different electrodiagnostic criteria sets have been proposed for acute inflammatory demyelinating neuropathy (AIDP), acute motor axonal[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Quadriplegia

The excerpt below from Apparelyzed explains what is know as poikilothermia, or variable body temperature. [forcaregivers.wordpress.com]

Poikilothermic And Poikilothermia Temperature Regulation Overview A normal, healthy human is able to maintain a constant body temperature of approximately 98.6F despite the [forcaregivers.wordpress.com]

Therefore, if a high paraplegic or quadriplegic is in an outside temperature over 90 F, especially when the humidity is high, the body temperature will begin to rise (Poikilothermia [forcaregivers.wordpress.com]

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Heat Stroke

A 23-year-old comatose man was presented in the emergency room. He had been working inside a building under construction on a hot summer's day. His core body temperature was 42.1 degrees C and he was diagnosed with heat stroke. Urgent cooling procedures, including applying cold vapor to the patient's skin, a[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Familial Dysautonomia

Familial dysautonomia is a genetic disorder that affects development and survival of sensory and autonomic neurons. FD manifests in early childhood, but the severity of symptoms varies greatly. Parents report that their infants have dysphagia, excess drooling, blunted swallowing reflexes, and frequent vomiting.[…] [symptoma.com]

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Thromboangiitis Obliterans

[…] migratory distended veins with redness and tenderness darkened or discolored skin gangrene cool extremities limb ischemia pain, paresthesia, pallor, mottling, pulselessness, and poikilothermia [step2.medbullets.com]

Features of acute limb ischemia (eg, pain, paresthesia, palor, mottling, poikilothermia, paresis, and pulselessness) are common signs and symptoms encountered in the emergency [emedicine.com]

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Spinal Trauma

Its critical features are hypotension, bradycardia and poikilothermia. [trauma.reach.vic.gov.au]

[…] a reflex contraction of the anal sphincter Decreased bladder function Fecal retention Unexplained ileus Autonomic hyperreflexia BP variability with flushing and sweating Poikilothermia [reliasmedia.com]

Greatly increase cost and morbidity poikilothermia in patients with lesion above T1 hyponatraemia common in first week Prognosis Because of the possibility of spinal shock [aic.cuhk.edu.hk]

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Cervical Spine Fracture

[…] examination may find one or more of the following: spinal or neurogenic shock, hypotension with paradoxical bradycardia, fecal incontinence, urinary retention, ileus, priapism, poikilothermia [symptoma.com]

[…] paralysis of voluntary muscles, areflexia, loss of sympathetic tone ( hypotension and bradycardia in high thoracic or cervical injuries, increased vascular capacitance ), poikilothermia [trauma.org]

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Medial Sclerosis

Poikilothermia syndrome. J Intern Med. 1998;244(5):431-6. [ Links ] 21 Edwards S, Lennox G, Robson K, Whiteley A. [scielo.br]

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Femoral Artery Occlusion

History and Physical The classic presentation of limb ischemia is known as the "six Ps," pallor, pain, paresthesia, paralysis, pulselessness, and poikilothermia. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] on clinical presentation Differential Arterial aneurysm distinguishing factors normal ankle-brachial index aneurysm seen on imaging Embolism (pain, pallor, paresthesias, poikilothermia [medbullets.com]

Most patients initially present with pain, pallor, pulselessness, and poikilothermia. Pain is often localized and less severe when the limb is in the dependent position. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Lower Extremity Arterial Aneurysm

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Pulmonary Tumor Embolism

[…] ischemia is typically categorized as thrombotic, embolic or traumatic [ 12 ], and characteristically described by the six Ps: pain, pallor, pulselessness, paresthesias, poikilothermia [intjem.springeropen.com]

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Benign Familial Infantile Epilepsy Type 4

[…] diffuse infantile familial sclerosis Dysmyelinating disease, autosomal recessive, usually presents by 1 yr, specific enzyme deficiency identified, rapid spontaneous nystagmus, poikilothermia [kmle.co.kr]

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Abdominal Aortic Thrombosis

Typically, patients with AATO have findings of acute limb ischemia, known as the “6 Ps” including pain, pallor, paresthesia, paralysis, poikilothermia, and pulselessness. [pulsus.com]

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Pediatric Arterial Ischemic Stroke

[…] injury include massive bleeding, a rapidly expanding hematoma, any of the classic signs of arterial occlusion (ie, pulselessness, pallor, paresthesia, pain, paralysis, and poikilothermia [healio.com]

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Patent Ductus Arteriosus

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Basal Encephalocele

[…] dysfunction including deficiencies of growth hormone, thyrotropin, adrenocorticotropic hormone and gonadotropins, diabetes insipidus, adipsia with essential hypernatremia and poikilothermia [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Phlegmasia Alba Dolens

Patient had 3 of 6 “Ps” associated with compartment syndrome—pain out of proportion to the physical findings, paresthesia, pallor, paralysis, pulselessness, and poikilothermia [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Status Epilepticus

High doses of barbiturates can cause poor chemotaxis of white cells, paralysis of respiratory cilia, and poikilothermia. [ccforum.biomedcentral.com]

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Arterial Embolism

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Amaurotic Familial Idiocy

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Spinal Cord Transection

Hypothermia of spinal cord injury To put correctly, the spinal injury patient develops "poikilothermia", which is the deregulation of body temperature control leading to abnormally [derangedphysiology.com]

Inability to sweat or shiver (poikilothermia) affects the patient’s temperature regulation and can worsen bradycardia. [americannursetoday.com]

Poikilothermia is more likely to occur with higher-level SCIs and more complete motor impairment. Monitor environmental temperature, as this can affect body temperature. [americannursetoday.com]

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Popliteal Artery Aneurysm

When an aneurysm acutely thromboses, the most common symptoms are acute lower extremity ischemia resulting in the acute onset of pain, paresthesias, paresis, pallor and poikilothermia [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Cerebral Embolism

Clinical manifestations of acute limb ischemia (which can be summarized as the "six P's" ) include pain, pallor, pulseless, paresthesia, paralysis, and poikilothermia. [4] [en.wikipedia.org]

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Popliteal Aneurysm

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Embolism of Arteries of the Extremities

[…] in some cases) Patient without Underlying Peripheral Arterial Disease : typically present acutely with classical presentation of 6 P ‘s Pain Pulseless Parasthesias Pallor Poikilothermia [mdnxs.com]

The “six Ps” – pain, pallor, paresthesia, paralysis, pulselessness, poikilothermia – are applicable also for acute arm ischemia, but coldness and color changes are more prominent [intranet.tdmu.edu.ua]

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Limb Pain

结果85例5 16岁骨骼畸形儿童的临床症状主要为多汗、肢体疼痛、肢体无力、肌肉痉挛; 短句来源 The efficacy of the integrated therapy was assessed by scoring lower limb pain intensity, poikilothermia, ankle-brachial index [dict.cnki.net]

短句来源 Results The scores of the lower limb pain intensity and poikilothermia markedly decreased in the patients one week after the treatment, then rebounded to some degree [dict.cnki.net]

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Ischemic Cardiomyopathy

Clinical manifestations of acute limb ischemia (which can be summarized as the "six P's" ) include pain, pallor, pulseless, paresthesia, paralysis, and poikilothermia. [4] [en.wikipedia.org]

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Septo-Optic Dysplasia

Owing to the poikilothermia, such children also experience dangerously high fevers during illness and unusually low body temperatures during healthy periods. [aao.org]

Clinical signs of hypocorticalism are neonatal hypoglycemia, hypotension, recurrent infections, seizures, developmental delay and poikilothermia (impaired temperature regulation [aao.org]

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Hypothalamic Hamartoma

Residual complications include diabetes insipidus (n 1), poikilothermia (n 1), visual field deficit (n 1), and hemiparesis (n 1). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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