[Chinese consensus for mild hypothermia brain protection].

Mild hypothermia, as an effective method of brain protection, has been applied in the treatment of severe craniocerebral injury, cardiac surgery and the patients after cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Although relevant guidelines, and draftsor suggestions are available in different countries, the clinical practice in this field is still obscure in China. For this reason, experts from cardiology and cardio-surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, intensive care unit, cardiopulmonary bypass, anesthesia, emergency have been organized to write Chinese consensus for mild hypothermia brain protection according to the characteristics of the mild hypothermia technology, application field, operation method and common problems etc. in conjunction with Cerebral Protection in Cardiac Intensive Care Group and Neural Intensive Nursing and Rehabilitation Group, which belong to Neural Regeneration and Repair Committee of Chinese Research Hospital Association. The consensus aims to promote the postoperative cranial nerve function in patients with rehabilitation, and it will be helpful to guide the clinical practice.