She suggests monitoring EEG activity in people undergoing brain surgery that involves cooling the brain and reducing its blood supply.
The aim of this study is to explore the change of hemoglobin during local brain cooling after traumatic brain injury, and assess the treatment effect by using the wireless near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) system.
This pilot study assessed the effect of forced convective head and neck cooling on brain temperature, measured by magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), in five healthy adult humans (three males).
We describe the construction and implementation of one device for cooling surface brain areas, such as cortex, and another device for cooling deep brain regions.
So the researchers hit on the idea of cooling the brain for 2-3 days to slow down the process of cell death and buy the brain time to heal itself.
There have been developments in cooling the brain to reduce any damage as well as improvements in ventilation to ensure enough oxygen is getting to brain.
The idea of cooling the brain came from animal studies and small studies of head-injured patients that seemed to indicate it might improve outcomes.
Cooling the brain slightly might also make us more alert – waking us up when we are bored and distracted.
Following 7 h of cooling, the brain was then allowed to gradually rewarm to the baseline temperature of 37.9 ± 0.4 °C in 2.5 h.
After 6 h of cooling, the brain temperature was allowed to gradually return to the baseline temperature in 2.5 h by increasing the air temperature to 14 ± 2 °C and adjusting the flow rate to 10 30 L/min.
