Cool Medicine In situations in which the brain is deprived of oxygen, such as in a heart attack or traumatic brain injury, irreversible damage to the brain can happen very quickly. It’s been proposed that cooling the body of a patient after cardiac arrest or traumatic brain injury may help protect the brain against long-term damage, perhaps by reducing the
In order to achieve some protection for the brain without causing other undesired physiological effects such as disruptions to heart rhythms, the goal is to reduce the core body temperature from its normal value of 37 °C to between 30 °C and 35 °C . Animal experiments have shown some promising results, and human trials are being done. In one trial, 95% of patients had their core temperature reduced to 34 °C in 2.0 hours. To cool the body this quickly, each patient was placed between two cooled blankets, one above the patient and one below. Water and alcohol were sprayed on the patient, and any skin that wasn’t covered by the top blanket was exposed to the environment.
91. • Which method of cooling the patient in this study relies primarily on
- A. Exposing skin to the environment
- B. Spraying water and alcohol on the patient
- C. Using cooled blankets above and below
- D. None of these
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