In the face of a heatwave that saw temperatures soar to 50 degrees, Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in New Delhi set up a special unit for heat stroke patients.
Using immersion cooling technology, unconscious patients were submerged in icy water, their body temperatures lowered from a dangerous 104 degrees Fahrenheit to a safer 102.
This solution proved more effective than paracetamol injections, offering a lifeline during this crisis.
Reporter: Md Asghar Khan
Videographer: Suresh K Pandey
Producer: Divya Tiwari
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Using immersion cooling technology, unconscious patients were submerged in icy water, their body temperatures lowered from a dangerous 104 degrees Fahrenheit to a safer 102.
This solution proved more effective than paracetamol injections, offering a lifeline during this crisis.
Reporter: Md Asghar Khan
Videographer: Suresh K Pandey
Producer: Divya Tiwari
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00:00The cooling technology for these patients is the Immersion Cooling Technology.
00:27Due to heat stroke, the patient becomes unconscious.
00:33We try to bring the temperature of the body down by cooling.
00:39The heat wave in which the temperature touched 50 degrees,
00:44after 10 days of our inauguration, the patients started coming.
00:53The global climate is changing and the results are very strange.
00:59This year, the prediction was that the heat wave could have a very adverse effect on people.
01:08That's why we have made this heat stroke unit for disaster preparedness.
01:16If the patient is more critical, then the patient is put on a ventilator.
01:21The patient's temperature is brought down by putting cold water and ice in an inflatable tub.
01:28The patient who is a little conscious and has a slight disorientation,
01:33can be safely brought down into the water.
01:36They are brought down into the water and the ice-making machine,
01:40which is called Keemprashitak in Hindi, or Ice Boy,
01:45is used to bring the temperature of the water down to 5 degrees.
01:52The patient is put in the water at a temperature of 104 degrees.
01:58The temperature is kept in the tub until the temperature drops to 102 degrees Fahrenheit.
02:04There are some symptoms that people are not able to understand.
02:09The heart beats faster, the heart beats faster, the breathing becomes faster,
02:14the breathing becomes shallow, there can be pain in the stomach, the heart can beat faster.
02:20These are the symptoms that people ignore and think that they have eaten something.
02:27The heat stroke patient's fever is not reduced by paracetamol injections.
02:33The best way to reduce fever is to use cold immersion techniques in cold water.