New Medtech Innovation briefing from NICE on using Arctic Sun 5000 for therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest.
The innovative aspects are that it is less invasive than endovascular systems and is designed to cool more efficiently than conventional external methods because of the adhesive, repositionable gel pads it uses. It works by adjusting the water temperature in the gel pads every 2 minutes in response to the patient's body temperature, which is constantly monitored using a probe.
The intended place in therapy would be instead of standard surface cooling systems to induce mild hypothermia in people who are comatose after having a cardiac arrest in or out of hospital, and for subsequent rewarming.
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Friday, 10 February 2017
HumiGard for preventing inadvertent perioperative hypothermia
New guidance form NICE on HumiGard for preventing inadvertent perioperative hypothermia.
Monday, 3 October 2016
Severe accidental hypothermia treated with cardiopulmonary bypass
BMJ Case Rep. 2016 Sep 29;2016. pii: bcr2016216371. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2016-216371.
This case report describes the successful treatment of severe accidental hypothermia with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). A known intravenous drug misuser aged 22 years was found to be unresponsive at his home (winter evening) with a Glasgow coma scale of 3/15. In the ambulance, the patient went into cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary resuscitation being started. On arrival to the emergency department, he had a core body temperature of 27°C which was refractory to conservative management. He underwent femoro-femoral CPB, which was successful in rewarming the patient slowly. The patient was discharged home with no neurological deficit 10 days later.
UHCW Research: Gani MA, Jagdev BS, Champsi A and Dandekar U
This case report describes the successful treatment of severe accidental hypothermia with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). A known intravenous drug misuser aged 22 years was found to be unresponsive at his home (winter evening) with a Glasgow coma scale of 3/15. In the ambulance, the patient went into cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary resuscitation being started. On arrival to the emergency department, he had a core body temperature of 27°C which was refractory to conservative management. He underwent femoro-femoral CPB, which was successful in rewarming the patient slowly. The patient was discharged home with no neurological deficit 10 days later.
UHCW Research: Gani MA, Jagdev BS, Champsi A and Dandekar U
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