title: Therapeutic hypothermia in drowning induced hypoxic brain injury: a case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Although therapeutic hypothermia for neuroprotection has been in use for over half a century but its use has been controversial in absence of proper guidelines. However for over two decades there has been revived interest in mild therapeutic hypothermia (32 - 34 degrees C) for neuroprotection.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 17 year-old female tourist was rescued from sea. She received cardio-pulmonary resuscitation for about 16 minutes. But she had sustained significant neurological insult as a result of hypoxic brain injury. Therapeutic hypothermia was added to her regime of neuroprotection in intensive care unit, and her neurological status improved in just 8 hours with full correction of her coma score by day 4.
authors.affiliation: Intensive Care Unit, Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust, Truro, UK.
authors.forename: Ramesh K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Batra
authors.forename: Jonathan J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Paddle