Researchers at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis have published six-year findings in the use of mild hyperthermia to treat new spinal cord injuries.
35 patients with cervical spinal cord injury – the most serious form of spinal cord injury – received systemic intravascular cooling to bring their body core temperature to 33°C. The treatment proved to be both safe and extremely neuroprotective. Forty-three percent of patients who received hypothermia treatment achieved better neurological outcomes when compared to the anticipated outcomes for patients with a similar injury who did not receive hypothermia.