Cooling

Avoid sudden death by quick cooling

An emergency medicine expert said in New York on Thursday, at an American Medical Association press briefing on heart disease, that rapidly cooling people whose hearts have suddenly stopped, could provide a way to bring them back to life without organ damage. Dr. Lance B. Becker, Director of the Emergency Resuscitation Center at the University of Chicago said that thousands of people die...

Cooling treatment for newborn asphyxia

Approximately 1 in 500 babies suffer from asphyxia, which can lead to brain injury, multiple disabilities or even death in severe cases. Around 25 per cent of babies who suffer from a moderate lack of oxygen at birth will develop cerebral palsy.// There are currently no effective treatments to reduce the risk of asphyxia at birth, but recent small scale studies have found that lowering a baby's t...

Cooling decreases heart attack effects

Reducing body temperature by just a few degrees minimises brain damage resulting from a cardiac arrest.When the heart suddenly stops - cardiac arrest - there's a great danger that the brain will be starved of oxygen. //Even if the person survives, they run the risk of permanent brain damage. It's been suggested that perhaps cooling the body can reduce the brain's demand for oxygen and this may pr...

Stroke Patients May Benefit By Wearing Cooling Helmets

Strokes can be caused by blood clots in blood vessels of the brain. At a recent meeting of 29th International Stroke Conference of the American Heart Association’s two studies were presented using //Cooling Helmets in patients who had developed stroke. Interestingly both study show that cooling of the brain reduces the damage caused by stroke. Vinay Nadkarni, M.D., from the American...

Cooling Can Reduce The Risk Of Brain Damage In Oxygen Deprived Newborns

Newborns deprived of oxygen can have a reduced risk of brain damage and cerebral palsy by having their brains cooled // for 72 hours after birth according to a recent study. Babies that received an inadequate supply of oxygen to the brain during delivery showed signs of being at a high risk for brain injury. However researchers say brain damage does not happen immediately when babies ar...

Effect Of Cooling And Exercise To Be Analyzed In Patients With Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis is a form of autoimmune disorder that occurs in individuals who produce antibodies against their own cells or tissues. In multiple sclerosis, the antibodies are directed towards the fatty sheaths around nerve cells. // Fatigue is the most common symptom of the disease. It can be to a certain extent by aerobic exercise. One of the limitations in this regard is that MS a...

Cooling Off As A Treatment Option For Heart And Trauma Patients

The idea of using hypothermia to help patients with severe heart disease or trauma was revived about two decades ago when W. Dalton Dietrich and his colleagues noticed// that the rats in their laboratory experienced the similar symptoms for a stroke, but had different responses. "We were perplexed," Dietrich commented. When the researchers measured the temperatures in the rats' brains...

Survival After Cardiac Arrest Is Aided By Cooling

Cardiac arrest is very common in North America with an estimated 400,000 people falling a victim each year. However only 30 percent of these //people have their hearts pumping again and only 6 percent are able to recover fully. One of the main causes of death after the heart is restarted is brain injury. In a paper presented at the 2006 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual M...

Current Cooling Devices Ineffective in Preventing Brain Injury

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found the current cooling devices are ineffective in preventing brain injury// as they do not penetrate deep into the brain. Cold slows down the rate of chemical reactions, potentially slowing the reactions that cause permanent injury in patients with stroke and other head trauma. Scientists used rats to valid...

Existing Brain Cooling Not Beneficial To Trauma Patients

It is widely accepted that doctors need to cool the brain in order to reduce the damage from stroke or other head injuries. But the existing cooling techniques// may not penetrate very deep into the brain. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis demonstrated in rats an effects called shielding, which accumulates large quantities of warm blood around the brain and thus...

Cooling Towers may Cause Severe Respiratory Diseases

The cooling towers on top of many large commercial buildings hold a high number of infected amoebas that may pose a threat to human health, says a new study.// Sharon Berk and colleagues of Tennessee Technological University sampled 40 cooling towers in hospitals, universities and industries and 40 natural environments including lakes, rivers, creeks and ponds. They found infected amo...

Cooling Temperatures Help Crucian Carp

Crucian carp, which is a sort of cousin to a goldfish, is able to store vast amounts of glycogen in its brain, due to the cooling temperatures present in water. //This will allow it to keep its brain healthy despite there being no oxygen in ponds between February and April The study from Finland found that the amount of glycogen in the brain was at its peak in February, when the pond...