**Therapeutic Hypothermia: Adverse Events, Recognition, Prevention and Treatment Strategies**

Rekha Lakshmanan, Farid Sadaka and Ashok Palagiri

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/55022

#### **1. Introduction**

Therapeutic hypothermia has been around for centuries, ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans have used it.

Hypothermia is any body temperature below 36 degree C.

Therapeutic Hypothermia is induced hypothermia and can be mild (34-35.9 degree C), moderate (32-33.9 degree C), moderately deep (30.1-31.9 degree C) or deep (less than 30degree C).


**Figure 1.** Current indications for induced therapeutic hypothermia

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