[The relationship between postoperative body temperature for 24 hours and central nervous system dysfunction in patients of selective cerebral perfusion].

Background: Postischemic hyperthermia is known to exert detrimental effect on neurological outcome even 24 hours after brain ischemia in animal experiments. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of postoperative hyperthermia in cardiac surgery.

Methods: We studied consecutive patients in elective or emergency cardiac surgery with selective cerebral perfusion.