Induction of Cooling With a Passive Head and Neck Cooling Device

Induction of Cooling With a Passive Head and Neck Cooling Device

Therapeutic hypothermia improves clinical outcome in patients with global cerebral ischemia after cardiac arrest and in newborns with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy. Hypothermia also seems promising in other cerebrovascular diseases, for example, ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke. In experimental models, the sooner hypothermia was initiated, the more distinctive neuroprotection was. Although cli...

Induction of cooling with a passive head and neck cooling device: effects on brain temperature after stroke.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Therapeutic hypothermia improves clinical outcome after cardiac arrest and appears beneficial in other cerebrovascular diseases. We conducted this study to investigate the relationship between surface head/neck cooling and brain temperature. METHODS Prospective observational study enrolling consecutive patients with severe ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke undergoing intra...

A novel head-neck cooling device for concussion injury in contact sports

Emerging research on the long-term impact of concussions on athletes has allowed public recognition of the potentially devastating effects of these and other mild head injuries. Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is a multifaceted disease for which management remains a clinical challenge. Recent pre-clinical and clinical data strongly suggest a destructive synergism between brain temperature el...

Passive Cooling Technologies

Cooling Device for Use with a Sonic Oscillator.

A cooling cell is described that facilitates maintenance of biological materials at low temperatures during prolonged sonic treatment. Using this cell and a Branson S-75 Sonifier, I examined temperatures and the release of protein and enzyme activity from suspensions of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. With the Sonifier at full power, it was possible to maintain cell temperature within 9 C of the cool...