Following on from this, I understand that there was a multi-centre study
in the USA looking at hypothermia in head injuries (randomised
controlled study). I may be wrong but I'm sure that it has been
abandoned because of adverse effects. Most of the papers on hypothermia
in head injury are of very poor quality (case series etc) and I wasn't
really that impressed by the Marion paper in the NEJM-the benefits
described here were really negligible-worth studying the paper though.
Francis Andrews
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, S A Hughes wrote:
>In message <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]
>writes
>>Whoops, sent the abstract on hypothermic brain injury
>>to the wrong list - sorry!
>>
>>Oh and happy Birthday!
>>
>>Simon
>I had no idea that the trauma list existed. could you please cross post
>a bit more of this stuff as seems very interesting.
>
>The alleged neuroprotective effect of hypothermia has been exploited by
>the cardiothoracic community for a long time. The Falklands conflict
>brought forward stories of casualties that had better survival than
>expected due to hypothermia. The subject seems to not have been
>mentioned much since within my earshot.
>
>
>In A/E, there are problems cooling people down, as the place is hot
>('Arlow is, anyway) We would have to rely on pre-cooled patients.
>
>I shall pull a copy of the paper you cite and read some more...
>--
>S A Hughes
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