Infants and children who suffer a cardiac arrest in the hospital do not benefit from body cooling, or therapeutic hypothermia, according to an NHLBI-funded study. The findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine and indicated that health outcomes for children treated with body cooling, which lowers the temperature below normal range, were no better than for those whose temperature was kept within normal range. Read release.
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