The treatment is called therapeutic hypothermia and at its core is the simplest of technologies: ice.
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Her son survived, but suffered frostbite and hypothermia, and is at a local hospital.
The students were treated in hospital in Coleraine for shock and hypothermia and were later discharged.
At the moment, nobody knows if SIDS babies die of brachycardia or hypothermia or both.
When they were eventually called it was too late they had died of hypothermia.
The elderly and the young are a highest risk for hypothermia in colder temperatures.
When the body's core temperature drops below 95 degrees Fahrenheit, a mild form of hypothermia takes hold.
It has been a long and uphill climb getting people to recognize how hypothermia should be treated.
The Guardsmen rescued about 90 motorists, including a few who had hypothermia and were taken to hospitals.
An ambulance service spokesman said one man went into cardiac arrest and the others were suffering "extreme hypothermia".
The coroner certified the cause of death as hypothermia resulting from exposure to cold temperatures while acutely intoxicated.
An 80-year-old suffering from hypothermia has been airlifted from Pirnmill in the island's north-west to Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock.
Fumbling hands, slurred speech and fits of uncontrollable shivering are of worsening hypothermia.
Most people who fall into cold water die from drowning and not hypothermia as commonly thought, researchers have found.
They may not use hypothermia or treatment which will lead to heat injury.
Thus many more people seem destined to die from illness, injury, hunger or hypothermia, as Kashmir's bitter winter sets in.
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One of the three people on board the motor boat was taken to hospital with chest pain and possible hypothermia.
What they found was that before the manipulated mice died, they suffered from brachycardia (abnormally slow heart rate) and hypothermia.
In severe cases of hypothermia, rewarming is a treacherous process that poses a substantial risk of cardiac arrest if mismanaged.
In previous cases, patients who have suffered extreme hypothermia have died even after doctors had apparently successfully re-started their hearts.
What happened that day in 1999 changed her life and has redefined what is possible in cases of accidental hypothermia.
After he was found on 9 November he was suffering from hypothermia and severe frostbite on his feet and hands.
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The pair, a boy and girl also believed to be aged six, were treated for hypothermia before being taken to hospital.
Putting a price tag on lifesaving medical treatments makes people uneasy, but there's also strong medical evidence to support therapeutic hypothermia.
Actually, alcohol in excess, can lead to a lowering of your core body temperature and place you at risk for hypothermia.
Green says the option of using moderate hypothermia as a treatment might well improve prospects for many people who suffer catastrophic spinal cord injuries.
The findings prompted the American Heart Association to include therapeutic hypothermia in 2005 guidelines for treating cardiac-arrest patients outside of a hospital.
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She was not the first person whom he and his colleagues had tried to revive from cardiac arrest after hypothermia and suffocation.
If the body continues to lose heat, this mild form of hypothermia morphs into a moderate and then severe form of hypothermia.
They risk hypothermia, or if they're injured there may be difficulties involved in leaving them out on the hills because of that.
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