TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Therapeutic hypothermia in drowning induced hypoxic brain injury: a case report
JO  - Cases journal
A1  - Batra, Ramesh K.
A1  - Paddle, Jonathan J.
SP  - 9103
EP  - 9103
VL  - 2
IS  - 
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1757-1626
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9103
ID  - ref1
ER  -