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Hypothermia Used to Prevent Newborn Brain Damage
New studies show that inducing hypothermia, or cooling patients down with a cold blanket, eases damaging effects resulting from emergencies including oxygen loss. In particular, advanced neonatal intensive care units are using hypothermia to treat newborns experiencing restricted blood flow during delivery. According to the Los Angeles Times, restricted blood flow causes oxygen deprivation, and newborns who experience this oxygen deprivation may suffer brain damage and cerebral palsy. In a 2005 study, doctors cooled 102 infants and compared them to 106 babies kept warm after experiencing potential brain damage. Fifty-six percent of infants who were cooled survived with little or no disability compared to 38 percent of infants kept warm. Amanda Reynolds gave birth to Avery in 2010, blue from a lack of oxygen. Doctors wrapped the infant in a cold blanket to induce hypothermia. She spent more than six weeks in the hospital, but now she is developmentally on…
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Pure Oxygen Dangerous to Infants
It turns out that the treatment for oxygen deprivation may hurt the babies it is intended to help. Oxygen deprivation, known as hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, occurs primarily during birth trauma or near-drowning incidents. It is one of the most common causes of death and long-term brain damage in infants and children, and is treated with 100% oxygen. Conspiracy Theory dvd Afro Samurai: Resurrection the movie Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! release However, researchers at the University of Texas recently discovered that mice treated with less than 60 seconds of pure oxygen after being without air had more brain-cell death and coordination problems than those that recovered with room air. Apparently, the 100% oxygen treatment caused severe damage in the brain-cells that create myelin, a fatty substance that develops with age and aids coordination. Patients with this kind of brain damage are prone to develop…
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