Brain cooling technique can aid stroke recovery
In a novel study, a team of Scottish doctors found that cooling the brain of stroke patients could spectacularly improve the rate of their recovery. It is believed by doctors that inducing hypothermia in some stroke patients can improve rates of survival and diminish damage to the brain.
The brain cooling techniqueputs the body into a state of synthetic hibernation in which brain can subsist with less supply of blood and that provides doctors crucial time to treat blocked blood vessels. Analogous procedures have already been attempted effectively on heart patients and those suffering brain injuries.
Up till today the researches have occupied the body of stroke patients is cooled by using ice cold intravenous drips and applying cooling pads to the skin. These techniques lower the temperature of the body up to thirty-five C which is just a couple of degree below the normal level.
Each day about one thousand European expire due to stroke which means one in every ninety seconds and about twice that number but are disabled, explained Dr Malcolm Macleod, head of experimental neuroscience at the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. According their estimation the hypothermia could improve the result for more than forty thousand Europeans each tear.
Dr Macleod and his Scottish team are amalgamating a symposium of clinicians from across Europe to look for funding for a trial that involve fifteen hundred stroke patients. The first round substantiation is all there and it is time to take action, stated Dr Macleod in European Stroke Research Network for Hypothermia (EuroHYP), a group of European researchers from more than 20 countries.
As the population ages, this trial will become even more important and a benefit of brain cooling technique verified in the recommend study will set the stage for future studies with hypothermia, widening the eligibility of the treatment to even larger number of patients, explained the European project research leader Prof Dr Stefan Schwab.
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