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Eye on Health: Chilling Therapy
About 300,000 people in the U.S. suffer cardiac arrest each year.
Few survive when it happens outside of a hospital. Of those, many never recover enough brain function to return to their normal lives.
But a treatment used to cool the body's temperature may be able to increase survival rates, and brain function.
"It's extremely important, valuable. It obviously saved my life," says Allen Fields, cardiac arrest patient.
Fields' heart stopped beating, while he was running the La Jolla half-marathon, last year. But Fields still calls it his "lucky day."
"I was fortunate enough to have doctors in the race and doubly fortunate to be a little faster than they were because if they were in front of me, they would've never found me," says Fields.
Those doctors got his heart beating again.
"When I woke up, I wasn't even aware that had even occurred," says Fields.
And the treatment continued, as doctors cooled his body, to prevent brain damage.
Doctor Shawn Evans, of Scripps Memorial Hospital, says these cooling blankets lower the body's temperature by eight degrees. It's called "Therapeutic Hypothermia," and a new study shows it greatly increases patient survival and brain function.
"And this study showed that about five percent walked out of the hospital and of those, those who had good cognitive outcomes did great," says Dr. Evans.
An even newer treatment inserts this catheter directly into a blood vessel to more precisely cool the patient's body.
"Neurologically, I wouldn't have been able to function. So by putting in the hypothermia state, I was able to overcome that," says Fields.
Dr. Evans hopes this new study prompts more hospitals to use these life, and brain-saving treatments.
"That is one of the greatest advents in terms of our care, and improving the chain of survival," says Dr. Evans.
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Fields' heart stopped beating, while he was running the La Jolla half-marathon, last year. But Fields still calls it his "lucky day." "I was fortunate enough to have doctors in the race and doubly fortunate to be a little faster than they were because
The process, used at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, is called therapeutic hypothermia. Last year, Allen Fields was running the La Jolla Half Marathon when his heart stopped beating. He, for a number of reasons, calls it his “lucky day.
I've been training in the ocean, predominately in the La Jolla cove, swimming, on average, 25 to 30 miles per week for the last three months. I started in February at 15 miles a week and progressed. “I have to be able to endure cold water for extended
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Allen Fields' heart stopped beating while he was running the La Jolla half-marathon last year. "It's extremely important, valuable. It obviously saved my life," Allen Fields said. "I was fortunate enough to have doctors in the race and doubly fortunate
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Coldwell Banker La Jolla Supports La Jolla Half Marathon
Coldwell Banker La Jolla, in conjunction with the Kiwanis Club of La Jolla recently sponsored the 30th annual La Jolla Half Marathon, with all proceeds donated to the youth-oriented charities within the community.
For the last 15 years, Coldwell Banker La Jolla has sponsored a booth to hand out bananas and oranges to runners as they cross the finish line, The agents that participated in this fundraising event include Nate Levy, Barbara Richards, Laurielynn Barnett, Lynn Walton, Orlanda Vance, Patricia Denning, Sue and Tom Silva, Vicki Johnson, Anita Reynolds and Patricia Hausman. Sales associates Penny Shipley and Joe Koors ran the race.
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