Cool idea may help with treatment of brain injuries

A Dundalk-based engineering firm has patented a device for cooling the brain that could have a significant impact on how head injuries are treated.

A Dundalk-based engineering firm has patented a device for cooling the brain that could have a significant impact on how head injuries are treated.

Eurolec Instrumentation developed the brain-cooling device after reading about medically induced hypothermia.

''We had virtually no medical knowledge in-house, Tom Mears, managing director of Eurolec, told The Sunday Business Post.

''A couple of years ago I saw an article in the New Scientist about using induced hypothermia. It was ...