National Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month in March provides an opportunity to discuss this important and evolving area of medicine. In the past, coaches told athletes to shake off a blow to the head. Football coaches would call it a bellringing, and boxers would...
Brain Damage
Hypothermia Reduces Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Damage
Whole body cooling reduces brain damage from oxygen deprivation during birth and can lessen death and disability rates for these infants. A study of the use of hypothermia therapy (reduced body temperature) for babies with a gestational age of 36 weeks or more and who...