@article{ref1,
title="Therapeutic hypothermia in drowning induced hypoxic brain injury: a case report",
journal="Cases journal",
year="2009",
author="Batra, Ramesh K. and Paddle, Jonathan J.",
volume="2",
number="",
pages="9103-9103",
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.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1757-1626",
doi="10.1186/1757-1626-2-9103",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9103"
}