London’s Air Ambulance Trialling Brain-Cooling Device in Cardiac Arrest Patients

About The RhinoChill^® IntraNasal Cooling System
The RhinoChill^® IntraNasal Cooling System is a new portable and easy-to-use system for inducing therapeutic hypothermia following cardiac arrest. This allows it to be administered initially at the site of the event and then continued in the ambulance, unlike conventional maintenance systems which can only be administered once the patient has reached hospital. It can easily be administered before the return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), which is important, as it has been shown that the sooner brain temperature can be reduced following a potentially damaging event, the better it can be protected from permanent injury.

About London’s Air Ambulance
London’s Air Ambulance is the Charity which runs London’s Helicopter Emergency Medical Service.  The service provides pre-hospital medical care to victims of serious injury, at the scene of the incident, throughout London - serving the 10 million people who live, work and commute within the M25.  

Based at the Royal London Hospital and founded in 1989, the service is unique in that it operates 24/7, with the helicopter running in daylight hours and rapid response cars taking over at night. 

The Team, which at all times includes a Senior Trauma Doctor and a specially trained Paramedic, perform advanced medical interventions, normally only found in the Hospital Emergency Department, in time critical, life threatening situations. Missions commonly involve serious road traffic collisions, falls from height, industrial accidents, assaults and injuries on the rail network.

London’s Air Ambulance has an international reputation for clinical excellence and delivers pioneering procedures which have been adopted across the world.