Cooling may benefit children after cardiac arrest
Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 12:49
in Health & Medicine
When the heart is stopped and restarted, the patient's life may be saved but their brain is often permanently damaged. Therapeutic hypothermia, a treatment in which the patient's body temperature is lowered and maintained several degrees below normal for a period of time, has been shown to mitigate these harmful effects and improve survival in adults.