{"id":71005,"date":"2017-07-18T21:22:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T04:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/scientists-have-reversed-brain-damage-in-a-2-year-old-girl-who-drowned-in-a-swimming-pool"},"modified":"2017-07-25T06:00:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T13:00:53","slug":"scientists-have-reversed-brain-damage-in-a-2-year-old-girl-who-drowned-in-a-swimming-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/scientists-have-reversed-brain-damage-in-a-2-year-old-girl-who-drowned-in-a-swimming-pool","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Reversed Brain Damage in a 2-Year-Old Girl Who Drowned in a Swimming Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pdy9w_3x2Lw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in the US have reported what they believe is a first-of-its-kind reversal of brain damage, after treating a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/violence_injury_prevention\/other_injury\/drowning\/en\/\">drowned and resuscitated<\/a> toddler with a combination of oxygen therapies.<\/p>\n<p>The little girl, whose heart didn\u2019t beat on her own for 2 hours after drowning, showed deep grey matter injury and cerebral atrophy with grey and white matter loss after the incident, and could no longer speak, walk, or respond to voices \u2013 but would uncontrollably squirm around and shake her head.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, thanks to a course of oxygen treatments \u2013 including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/tests-procedures\/hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy\/basics\/why-its-done\/prc-20019167\">hyperbaric oxygen therapy<\/a> (HBOT) \u2013 administered by a team from LSU Health New Orleans and the University of North Dakota, doctors were able to significantly reverse the brain damage experienced by the toddler.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-reversed-brain-damage-in-a-2-year-old-girl-who-drowned-in-a-swimming-pool\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-reversed-brain-d...mming-pool<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in the US have reported what they believe is a first-of-its-kind reversal of brain damage, after treating a drowned and resuscitated toddler with a combination of oxygen therapies. The little girl, whose heart didn\u2019t beat on her own for 2 hours after drowning, showed deep grey matter injury and cerebral atrophy with grey and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71129,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71005\/revisions\/71129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}