Can Prophylaxis Prevent Epilepsy in Patients With Traumatic Brain Injury?

When Dr. D'Ambrosio cooled the rats' brains by 2 °C, they did not develop post-traumatic epilepsy. Cooling eliminated short, medium-sized, and long seizures in treated animals. The amount of cooling performed in the study is "much less than we do in the ICU now for people who have had cardiac arrest," observed Dr. Dichter. So far, no studies have investigated whether cooling can prevent post-traumatic epilepsy in humans.