Mild hypothermia can reduce the effects of sepsis on oxygen transport around the body and may be a valuable tool in the treatment of human sepsis patients. Sepsis is an inflammatory response to ...

The treatment, sometimes used after cardiac arrest, may be beneficial. Since the novel coronavirus caught the world's attention in December 2019, doctors have been trying to determine how the virus ...

A Henry Ford Hospital finds that hypothermia, a relatively common but unintentional occurrence during surgery, is associated with an increased risk for infection in patients who undergo surgery to ...

Achieving moderate therapeutic hypothermia at 33°C improved survival with favorable neurologic outcome compared with normothermia in patients with coma who were resuscitated from cardiac arrest with ...

In patients who experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest before primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), therapeutic hypothermia does not increase the risk of stent thrombosis, according to ...

Maintaining "normothermia" (the condition of normal body temperature) in patients during surgical procedures is extremely important in not only saving lives but controlling costs, which is why it is ...

When critically ill patients require mechanical ventilation, their elevated metabolism degrades muscles used in breathing, making it harder for them to come off of the machines. High levels of carbon ...

Previous studies have shown that therapeutic hypothermia (TH) improves outcomes in patients who have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). In a new paper published in Circulation, Michael Mooney ...

Researchers are testing whether hypothermia can help trauma patients survive. Nov. 16, 2011— -- It worked on "Star Trek." Now, researchers are putting a type of suspended animation to the test, ...

Inducing mild hypothermia is easy to implement in clinical practice and may be a valuable tool in the treatment of human sepsis patients, say researchers at the University of Brest, France. Sepsis is ...