For more than a decade, there has been evidence that cooling a patient's body -- or therapeutic hypothermia -- improves those odds. No one quite knows why, but it's thought that the cold reduces ...

Therapeutic hypothermia has emerged as an effective treatment for neonatal encephalopathy. Now, research is aimed at determining prognosis after encephalopathy and therapeutic hypothermia.

The goal is to induce a low temperature, low metabolism state—therapeutic hypothermia—to give patients a better chance of surviving tissue ischemia, during long surgeries, or even on long ...

The only treatment supported by randomized clinical trials (RCT) is therapeutic hypothermia for infants ... and a loss to follow-up of more patients in the normothermic group, Faix and colleagues ...

Therapeutic hypothermia has become a part of surgical ... By the same token, surgeons apply cooling and metabolic suppression to patients who’ve suffered various physical traumas: heart attack ...

Hypothermic patients had significantly lower heart ... The cardiovascular safety of moderate hypothermia as a therapeutic measure is not proven. In fact, the results of our study suggest there ...