Article: Cooling Body Temperature For Revived Cardiac Arrest Patients Appears Safe.

2001 OCT 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Reducing the body temperature of someone revived from cardiac arrest is feasible and safe, but cooling time must be faster to make it a practical treatment, according to a report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Those who are revived after cardiac arrest often suffer brain damage because the flow of oxygen to the brain was shut off for too long.

"Many surviving patients are left with significant neurological disabilities," says senior author J.C. Grotta, a neurologist at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School. In animal studies, lowering body temperature (hypothermia) has ...

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