Citation

Batra RK, Paddle JJ. Cases J. 2009; 2: 9103.

Affiliation

Intensive Care Unit, Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust, Truro, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group - BMC)

DOI

10.1186/1757-1626-2-9103

PMID

20062680

PMCID

PMC2803900

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Although therapeutic hypothermia for neuroprotection has been in use for over half a century but its use has been controversial in absence of proper guidelines. However for over two decades there has been revived interest in mild therapeutic hypothermia (32 - 34 degrees C) for neuroprotection. CASE: A 17 year-old female tourist was rescued from sea. She received cardio-pulmonary resuscitation for about 16 minutes. But she had sustained significant neurological insult as a result of hypoxic brain injury. Therapeutic hypothermia was added to her regime of neuroprotection in intensive care unit, and her neurological status improved in just 8 hours with full correction of her coma score by day 4.

Language: en