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  2. Targeted temperature management - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. Hyperthermia therapy - Wikipedia

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    Hyperthermia therapy (or hyperthermia, or thermotherapy) is a type of medical treatment in which body tissue is exposed to temperatures above body temperature, in the region of 40–45 °C (104–113 °F). Hyperthermia is usually applied as an adjuvant to radiotherapy or chemotherapy, to which it works as a sensitizer, in an effort to treat cancer.

  4. University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System

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    The University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System was ranked as the 5th best hospital in the Chicago metropolitan area according to the U.S. News & World Report America's Best Hospitals report [3] and ranked among the best in the nation in: diabetes and endocrinology (#44); cancer ; otolaryngology; gynecology; nephrology (kidney ...

  5. Heat stroke - Wikipedia

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    However, following the 1995 Chicago heat wave, researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center studied all 58 patients with heat stroke severe enough to require intensive care at 12 area hospitals between July 12 and 20, 1995, ranging in age from 25 to 95 years. Nearly half of these patients died within a year – 21 percent before ...

  6. Hyperthermia - Wikipedia

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    Hyperthermia is generally diagnosed by the combination of unexpectedly high body temperature and a history that supports hyperthermia instead of a fever. [2] Most commonly this means that the elevated temperature has occurred in a hot, humid environment (heat stroke) or in someone taking a drug for which hyperthermia is a known side effect ...

  7. List of hospitals in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Hartgrove Hospital, Chicago; Hillsboro Area Hospital, Hillsboro; Holy Family Hospital, Greenville ... Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Chicago [9] Central ...

  8. Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital - Wikipedia

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    Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital, is an urban hospital located in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It is a 236-bed hospital, [1] located on the site of what used to be Clarendon Beach, a popular beach of the city. Until the 2000s, Weiss Hospital had been part of the University of Chicago Hospitals system. [2]

  9. Mercy Hospital and Medical Center - Wikipedia

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    The hospital is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association's Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program. [8] In 2012, Mercy Hospital and Medical Center was ranked #35 for all hospitals in the State of Illinois and #27 in the Chicago metropolitan area by U.S. News & World Report. [1]

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