Okayama Univ.'s cooling device to reduce brain damage

Okayama Univ.'s cooling device to reduce brain damage

OKAYAMA, Japan - Yoshimasa Takeda, an associate professor at Okayama University, introduces a pharyngeal cooling device on March 18, 2014, in Okayama, western Japan, that enables brain temperature to be reduced efficiently regardless of cardiac conditions to help minimize brain damage when trying to resuscitate patients under cardiac arrest.

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