Visualization of poikilothermia using handheld thermography

Yohei Okada; Hiromichi Narumiya

doi:10.1002/ccr3.1088

Visualization of poikilothermia using handheld thermography

Clin Case Rep. 2017 Jul 20;5(9):1542-1543. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.1088. eCollection 2017 Sep.

Authors

Yohei Okada¹, Hiromichi Narumiya¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine Japanese Red Cross Society Kyoto Daini Red Cross Hospital 355-5 Haruobicho Kamigyoku Kyoto 602-8026 Japan.

Abstract

Poikilothermia is a fundamental symptom of acute limb ischemia (ALI) and is known as "6Ps". Herein, we present the visualization of poikilothermia caused by ALI using handheld thermography. We believe that handheld thermography could be useful to assess poikilothermia objectively as a supplementary method to physical examination.

Keywords: Forward looking infrared; thermal imaging; veno‐arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).