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St. Cloud Hospital Successful at Brain Cooling Therapy for Infant
According to WQOW TV, St. Cloud Hospital has successfully cooled an infant to prevent or reduce the severity of brain injury. It is believed to be the first time a hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit has been able to reduce brain injury through the brain cooling method. Oliver Manlove, son of Renee and Kenny Manlove, was delivered full term but was deprived of oxygen during birth. He was transferred by helicopter to St. Loud Hospital for cooling. The NICU team utilized the total body cooling therapy. Therapeutic body cooling or hypothermia has been used at St. Cloud Hospital since 2005 to treat adult cardiac arrest patients. Cooling an infant can reduce the severity of a brain injury. Brain injuries during birth can result in life-long complications such as cerebral palsy, as well as developmental problems. Doctors start to cool an infant as soon as possible, the sooner a baby is…
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Brain Cooling Used to Fight Birth Injury
An innovative new therapy is being used to fight birth injuries by cooling the baby’s body. It has been discovered that if a newborn’s body temperature is lowered to about 6 degrees below normal within six hours that it could decrease the damage done to the brain from birth injuries. The idea is that the low temperature causes the body to slip into whole body hypothermia. There have been many cases over the years when the protective benefits of cold temperatures for the brain have been noted. For example young children who have drowned in icy lakes and been resuscitated have recovered with little or no brain damage. Research has been done in the United States which has shown that cooling provides benefits to infants who were born deprived of oxygen. Babies whose body temperature was lowered to 92.3degrees within 6 hours and kept there for 72 hours have been…
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