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Hypothermia for Heart Attack Patients
Host: David Crabb, MD
Interview: Tim Ellender, MD
Emergency medicine and critical care
Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis
If you’re unlucky to have a heart attack any time soon, there’s an increasing chance that, as part of your treatment, doctors in the hospital emergency room will put you on ice.
Well, not exactly ice, but they’ll cool you down, nonetheless.
A 2003 study showed that cooling the body to the point of hypothermia improves the chance of surviving a heart attack and promotes brain recovery.
At least one Indianapolis hospital is now using a procedure for heart attack patients to cool the body, which increases the oxygen supply to the brain.
To learn how it works, Sound Medicine's Dr. David Crabb spoke with Tim Ellender, an emergency medicine and critical care physician at Methodist Hospital.
Additional Resources:
- Learn more about medically induced hypothermia for heart attack patients from Clarian Health.
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