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A hypothermia cap (also referred to as cold cap or cooling cap) is a therapeutic device used to cool the human scalp.Its most prominent medical applications are in preventing or reducing alopecia in chemotherapy, and for preventing cerebral palsy in babies born with neonatal encephalopathy caused by hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE).
Targeted temperature management (TTM), previously known as therapeutic hypothermia or protective hypothermia, is an active treatment that tries to achieve and maintain a specific body temperature in a person for a specific duration of time in an effort to improve health outcomes during recovery after a period of stopped blood flow to the brain. [1]
A study conducted in 2002-2004 showed that treatment with therapeutic hypothermia for patients resuscitated after cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation led to a positive outcome (Glasgow-Pittsburgh Cerebral Performance category 1 or 2) in 24 of 43 patients compared to only 11 of 43 patients in the standard resuscitation group where no ...
Barron is who invented and patented the Chemo Cap, a therapeutic hypothermic device, in 1979. [2] [3] The Chemo Cap was designed to prevent alopecia from chemotherapy treatment by freezing the scalp and decreasing blood flow to areas of hair growth during administration of the drug.
Aggressiveness of treatment is matched to the degree of hypothermia. [2] Treatment ranges from noninvasive, passive external warming to active external rewarming, to active core rewarming. [ 16 ] In severe cases resuscitation begins with simultaneous removal from the cold environment and management of the airway, breathing, and circulation.
Afterdrop is a continued cooling of core temperature during the initial stages of rewarming from hypothermia.. Afterdrop is attributed to the return of cold blood from extremities to the core due to peripheral vasodilatation, thus causing a further decrease of deep body temperature. [1]
An arrest was made after a 9-year-old Illinois boy was shot and killed in Wisconsin. Officers were called to a home in Lake Geneva, Wis., on a report of a shooting at around 2:25 a.m. on Monday ...
The beta cells of the pancreas in type 1 diabetes produce an excess of the gas, leading to the death of these cells and to a reduced production of insulin by those that remain. [5] In 2005, it was shown that mice can be put into a state of suspended animation-like hypothermia by applying a low dosage of hydrogen sulfide (81 ppm H 2 S) in the air.