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...reducing the patient's metabolic demands. Inducing hypothermia may also prove useful in resuscitative procedures for heart attack and stroke victims and in trauma care. Surgeons are already using a variety of solutions in surgical procedures involving the arrest of brain and heart function at temperatures betwe...Newborn lambs' central heating system could aid fat busting in humans
... between two to three million newborn lambs die of hypothermia at cost of up to 100 million to the industry. Farm...kets on vulnerable lambs to try and save them from hypothermia during cold, wet snaps but often it's difficult to reach lambs in time especially in remote areas. T...Antarctic fish study may aid cardiac research
...) or fail to beat fast enough (e.g. as a result of hypothermia in water or exposure on a mountain). At the BAS Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula small acoustic tags (called 'pingers' due to the sound they make) are painlessly attached to the fish and the signals picked up by underwater micropho...Hypothermia helps brain heal after cardiac arrest, finds University of Pittsburgh study
...Cooling body temperature to levels consistent with hypothermia improves survival when induced after cardiac arres... care). The Pitt researchers sought to find out if hypothermia treatment played a role in survival from cardiac arrest and brain recovery. In animal studies, the r...A message from nature to muskrats: 'Dont chill out'
... body to increase diving time is known as adaptive hypothermia hypothesis. A depression in diving metabolic rate ... an excellent model for investigating the adaptive hypothermia hypothesis, since it routinely cools during voluntary swimming and diving and apparently does not en...Eliminating battlefield transfusions
...ologically balanced plasma expanders, coupled with hypothermia and ventilation with oxygen, or ventilation in hyperbaric oxygen, or used in large volumes in conjunction with oxygen carrier solutions, warrant further study for applying these methods to the human population....Cellular membrane changes associated with acclimation to cold
...hanisms of hibernation and the cellular effects of hypothermia in non-hibernating animals. The communication appears in the September 21, 2000, issue of Nature (1). Hibernation is a survival strategy that some mammals use during the winter to cope with shortages of food supplies and cold temperatures. When a m...Dominant birds stay leaner than their subordinates, study finds
... in winter because they often go into hypothermia as a survival mechanism. Birds...bird needs to go less far into hypothermia at night because it has more energy for metabolism," Grubb said. "Hypothermia is...