Cardiology
Are we giving up on cardiac arrest patients too soon?
Physicians may be drawing conclusions too soon about survival outcomes of patients who suffered a cardiac arrest outside the hospital.
Jul 1, 2016
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Hypothermia
Cardiology
Treatment lessens cerebral damage following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Among comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, treatment with inhaled xenon gas combined with hypothermia, compared with hypothermia alone, resulted in less white matter damage; however, there was no significant ...
Mar 15, 2016
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Surgery
Hypothermia during surgery linked with increased risk for infection
A Henry Ford Hospital finds that hypothermia, a relatively common but unintentional occurrence during surgery, is associated with an increased risk for infection in patients who undergo surgery to repair a hip fracture.
Mar 2, 2016
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Health
Seniors need to take extra care in the cold
(HealthDay)—Seniors are especially vulnerable to hypothermia during cold weather because their body's response to the cold can be affected by age, medication or medical condition.
Jan 28, 2016
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Health
Take care in the bitter cold
(HealthDay)—As frigid temperatures send much of the northern half of the United States into a deep freeze, doctors say people need to take steps to avoid dangerous drops in body temperature, or hypothermia.
Jan 19, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Seizure risk of anti-shivering agent meperidine greatly overstated
Meperidine, an opioid analgesic commonly used to control shivering in accidental or therapeutic hypothermia, has been linked to increased seizure risk, but a new study finds little published evidence to support this risk. ...
Nov 23, 2015
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Cardiology
Lowering body temperature increases survival, brain function in cardiac arrest patients with non-shockable heart rhythms
Lowering the body's temperature of cardiac arrest patients with "non-shockable" heart rhythms increases survival rates and brain function, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation.
Nov 16, 2015
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Cardiology
Protecting newborn brains using hypothermia
A unique study at Children's Hospital Los Angeles of newborns treated with hypothermia for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) - a condition that occurs when the brain is deprived of an adequate oxygen supply - confirms ...
Oct 8, 2015
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Neuroscience
Brain cooling lessens chances of head injury recovery, study finds
Head injury patients do not benefit from a therapy that involves cooling their bodies to reduce brain swelling, research has found.
Oct 7, 2015
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Cardiology
New study data show reduced intracranial pressure
Results from a European clinical trial comparing therapeutic hypothermia to standard treatment for patients with elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) as a result of severe traumatic brain injury demonstrate a significant ...
Jul 28, 2015
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