The therapeutic hypothermia systems market grows with rising cardiac and neurological cases, surgical demand, and adoption of advanced cooling devices. BRENTFORD ...

December 22, 2008 — One of the hottest topics in emergency medicine is a decidedly cold one: therapeutic hypothermia to prevent brain damage in patients after cardiac arrest. New York City has ...

For as long as I can remember, the American Heart Association (AHA) has promoted a concept of "4 links" in the chain of survival when a patient suffers a cardiac arrest: early access (to prehospital ...

Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health will soon introduce a therapeutic hypothermia treatment protocol for cardiac arrest patients at four of its member hospitals in rural western North Carolina. The ...

Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is one of the leading causes of newborn mortality and morbidity worldwide, and lowering the baby’s body temperature—called therapeutic hypothermia—is often used ...

Whole-body hypothermia within hours of birth failed to improve outcomes in preterm infants less than 36 weeks' gestational age with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. Death or moderate or severe ...

Adding a high dose of erythropoietin to therapeutic hypothermia did not reduce rates of death or disability in infants with neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), a phase III randomized trial ...

A Mayo Clinic study published this month in the journal Neurology provides guidance to physicians using therapeutic cooling to treat sudden cardiac arrest patients. One relatively new approach to ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Traumatic brain injury (TBI), commonly caused by incidents such as vehicular accidents or falls, initiates a cascade of inflammatory responses following the primary mechanical insult.

From the Medical Clinic of the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Fatigue Laboratory, Harvard University. The experimental work on hypothermia reported from this laboratory was supported by grants ...