Press Release

For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey Dobkin
Phone: 610-642-1000
Email: Jeff@Dobkin.com

Heart Attack: New Hope in Delaying Brain Damage in Cardiac Arrest Victims

After a heart attack and the victim stops breathing, a process of irreversible brain damage starts to occur within 3 to 4 minutes. Or does it?

While researching cardiac arrest, Jeffrey Dobkin read about a boy drowning in icy waters.  Although submerged for over half an hour in an icy river the boy was rescued, resuscitated, and recovered completely.  No brain damage.

Dobkin wondered: How can someone drown, remain under water for over ha’f an hour – and experience no brain damage?  What delays brain damage in drowning victims.  In an emergency can whatever saves people in cold water drownings be applied to heart attack victims?

Dobkin’s research pointed to yes. He believes brain damage that occurs when someone’s heart stops beating can be delayed for up to an hour.

“Cold water drowning victims survive without brain damage specifically because of the triggering of the ‘Mammalian Diving Reflex’.  This natural reflex is solely responsible for delaying brain death.” Says Dobkin. “And the specific trigger of the diving reflex is a facial immersion in cold water.”

Dobkin’s Technique to delay brain damage in heart attack victims is simple:  Immediately apply cold, wet compresses to the face of the victim.

His technique is an emergency time-buying procedure to delay brain damage until emergency medical personnel arrive.
It works independently… and in conjunction with CPR.

The Dobkin Technique is the application of cold wet compresses to the face and eye area.

“The eyes, the ophthalmic nerve, are the trigger points.” Says Dobkin.

The Dobkin-Trigger Technique immediately – within seconds – starts to delay brain damage and gives emergency medical personnel a much greater time element “golden window” to respond to non-breathing victims.

Without Dobkin’s Technique, a victim has less than 4 minutes before Hypoxic (low oxygen) Ischemic (low blood flow) brain damage starts to begin.

When the Mammalian Diving Reflex is triggered, the victim may have up to half an hour – or more – before brain damage starts to occur.

The Dobkin Technique works in Sudden Cardiac Arrest and other heart attack victims – the fourth largest cause of death in the U.S.  His technique works to delay brain damage when the oxygen supply to the brain of a person is shut off (Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy) for any reason: drowning, drug overdose, choking, suffocation, electrocution.  It works at a critical time—on the scene: before initial resuscitation can be started by medical personnel.

The Dobkin Technique to Delay Brain Damage can be found at The Brain Injury Foundation website: www.BrainInjuryFoundation.org.  Write to the Foundation at P.O. Box 100, Merion Station, PA 19066, email: info@BrainInjuryFoundation.org. Phone 610-642-1000.

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