Therapeutic hypothermia translates from ancient history in to practice

The thorax in history 1. From ancient times to Aristotle.

Therapeutic hypothermia

Pioneer works on therapeutic hypothermia (TH) half a century ago already showed promising results but clinical application was limited by a lack of understanding of the underlying pathophysiology, lack of reliable method for temperature control and lack of intensive care facilities to deal with possible complications. More recently, 2 studies in 2002 supported the application of moderate TH (32...

Therapeutic Hypothermia

Therapeutic hypothermia has been advocated for neuroprotection in cardiac arrest-induced encephalopathy, neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, traumatic brain injury, stroke, hepatic encephalopathy, and spinal cord injury, and as an adjunct to certain surgical procedures. In this review, we address physiological mechanism of hypothermia to mitigate neurological injury, the trials that have ...

Therapeutic Hypothermia in ICUs.

Recent research on Therapeutic Hypothermia (TH) post cardiac arrest has raised questions about its implementation and benefits. TH to 32-34 degrees C is still included in international guidelines for post-cardiac arrest care. We investigated how Irish ICUs are utilising TH as part of their management of patients post cardiac arrest using a telephone survey of all Irish ICUs. All 25 ICUs in Irel...

Therapeutic Hypothermia in Stroke

1Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco Neurology (127) VAMC 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA 2Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E9 3Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, 9444 Campus Point Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA 4Department of Physiology, Kyungpook National University School o...