00:00 Okay. Now there is a word. I just want you to try and sound that out on your own. 00:06 Yeah. That's a weird one. Well, if you could say it, what do you think it means? Okay. It's the inability to control body temperature due to a spinal cord injury. 00:20 So, knowing that, this is something that can happen pretty often with a spinal cord injury. 00:26 Our job is to watch that temperature regulation. 00:28 So the patient's body temperature will be equal to the room temperature. 00:33 Think about like how we handle babies. 00:35 Whatever the room temperature is that's what the patient is gonna be. 00:39 So, peripheral temperature sensations, they aren't delivered to the hypothalamus. 00:43 Usually that's what controls it, but the information highway, your spinal cord has been damaged. 00:50 So the hypothalamus doesn't get the right signals that's why they can't regulate their temperature. 00:55 So the patient just has a lowered ability to sweat or shiver below the level of spinal cord injury. 01:02 So the higher the spinal cord injury, the more significant the problem. 01:07 But remember, they can't sweat or shiver very well below the level of the spinal cord injury. 01:14 So you could potentially see some very unusual symptoms when someone's trying to regulate their temperature. 01:21 So you're gonna watch their body temperature closely, and you have to respond appropriately, so be ready. 01:26 You're gonna put blankets on, you're gonna take them off. 01:28 You’re gonna put them off, you're gonna take them off because you have to be the temperature regulator for patients that are struggling with this. 01:35 They can't do it for themselves.
The lecture Impaired Temperature Regulation – Nursing Interventions for Acute Spinal Cord Injury by Prof. Lawes is from the course Spinal Cord Injuries and Syndromes (Nursing) .
Which of the following is expected from a client with poikilothermism after a spinal cord injury?
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