Surgery at lowered body temperatures.
The reduction of total body temperature (24–26° C) has been employed in surgery only in the past few years, although it has been used for other purposes since 1930. The problems associated with bodily responses to the process of cooling are by no means thoroughly understood, nor are the therapeutic possibilities of the principle fully explored. It would seem to be more profitable to solve the first problem before pursuing too strenuously the second.
Further experiences with hypothermia for intracardiac surgery in monkeys and groundhogs.
FURTHER EXPERIENCES WITH HYPOTHERMIA FOR INTRACARDIAC SURGERY IN MONKEYS AND GROUNDHOGS W. Bigelow;J. McBibnie; Annals of Surgery
Resonant Auger decay study of C1s -> pi* core-excited OCS
The present work aims at characterizing short-lived C1s((-1)) pi*((1)) core-excited states of the OCS molecule based on the analysis of the vibrational fine structure and lineshape profiles of the high-resolution resonant Auger decay spectra recorded at the excitation energies along the C1s -> pi* resonance in the binding energy region 15-19eV. Very different behavior in terms of lineshape and resonant enhancement is observed for the (A) over tilde, (B) over tilde and (C) over tilde final states. This is explained by (1) the variation in the C-O bond lengths for the states involved in the electronic relaxation and (2) different contributions in terms of Mulliken population to the molecular orbitals determining the electronic character of the corresponding states. Since the final-state geometries are known from a number of previous experiments and ab initio calculations, the geometry of the C1s((-1)) pi*((1)) intermediate states can be predicted in analogy with e.g. the N-2, CO2 and N2O molecules. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. (Less)