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 ...

New York City paramedics now have a new weapon in their fight to save lives: Cold. Inducing hypothermia in cardiac arrest victims can prevent death, experts have found -- and city paramedics will now ...

Hypothermia is low body temperature, and it can kill you. But the American Heart Association says that if it's used properly, induced hypothermia can save the lives of some heart patients. Wake County ...

Nat Clin Pract Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2007;4(10):528-529. In summary, some issues need to be addressed in order to fully establish the place of hypothermia in the management of patients with ALF. Many ...

MONTHS, COMES THE RISK OF HYPOTHERMIA. IF YOU WORK OUTSIDE, ESPECIALLY NEAR WATER. METEOROLOGIST CAITLIN HARVEY EXPLAINS THE SIGNS AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT IN OUR WEATHER. EXTRA. WE’RE CONTINUING WITH ...

The objective of this study was to determine the efficacy of mild hypothermia via selective head cooling as a neuroprotective therapy in term infants with perinatal asphyxia. s: Our results suggest ...

Hypothermia is a dangerous condition in which the body becomes so cold that thinking, movement and protective responses are impaired, and the core body temperature drops to below 350C. In suspected ...

Therapeutic hypothermia — the procedure to bring down body temperature after cardiac arrest to preserve brain cells — proved a beneficial process for Sue Davis. The Pennsbury resident had a heart ...

Blue lips and skin. Chattering teeth. Icicles dripping off the nose. When cartoon characters get caught out in the snow—or maybe emerge from a winter lake encased in a block of ice—the signs of ...

When critically ill patients require mechanical ventilation, their elevated metabolism degrades muscles used in breathing, making it harder for them to come off of the machines. High levels of carbon ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. In summary, some issues need to be addressed in order to fully establish the place of hypothermia in the management of patients with ALF.