Following Open Heart Surgery or Cardiac Arrest, It Has Become

question 46

Multiple Choice

 Following open heart surgery or cardiac arrest, it has become common for physicians to

• A) artificially produce a state of mild hyperthermia in a patient.
• B) artificially produce a state of mild hypothermia in a patient.
• C) increase the levels of pyrogens in the brain.
• D) artificially produce a state of fever.

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