Therapeutic Hypothermia

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General Medical UsesHistorically, cold has been used in nonoperative therapeutics for more than a few years. Avicenna134 rated opium as the most powerful of the stupefacients; "snow and ice-cold water" were in his list of seven less powerful agents. Local analgesia with cold ("from sucking ice for about ten minutes before the mirror is to be introduced") was advocated in 1872 by Mackenzie135 in his lectures on the use of the laryngoscope. The customary icing of stomach tubes has long seemed both to stiffen the tubes and to provide mild local anesthesia. Ice cubes for bruises, "black eyes" and . . .