Loyola University Health System has established new guidelines to protect burn victims at risk for hypothermia during surgery. The skin regulates body temperature and when a large portion of skin is ...

December 22, 2008 — One of the hottest topics in emergency medicine is a decidedly cold one: therapeutic hypothermia to prevent brain damage in patients after cardiac arrest. New York City has ...

October 4, 2010 (Las Vegas, Nevada) — When emergency medical services added induced hypothermia with cold saline to standard postresuscitation care, the survival rate of patients with a return of ...

A controlled hypothermia method that has been used successfully in cardiac arrest patients is feasible and relatively safe in patients with acute stroke, according to a study published online January ...

Peritoneal hypothermia is feasible but also is associated with a high rate of adverse events in patients with STEMI without reducing infarct size, according to data from the prospective, randomized ...

In response to the article written July 24 regarding EMS and pre-hospital hypothermia protocol, I would like to present a different viewpoint from Dr. Chuck Burnell. The issue is that only one of 35 ...

Although therapeutic hypothermia is recommended and generally safe, severe and life-threatening complications are possible. Prolongation of QTc is a common result of therapeutic hypothermia and ...