Dr. John Barth

Now there's been a resurgence in the enthusiasm for the study of hypothermia particularly for spinal cord injury which has been focused through a lot of work done through Dr. John Barth, Chairman of Neurosurgery at Miami through the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, and they've done a lot of research trying to look at ways to allow, to either protect the spinal cord or to allow it to recover and what they found is the real premise for hypothermia is that if you are able to, if you are able to cool down the spinal cord soon within injury the hypothermia can confer neuroprotective mechanisms and it can slow down the damaging inflammatory processes which typically occur right after injury and the concept is if you have a spinal cord injury patient you implement and you infuse cold saline immediately within minutes to hours.You know, in the case of our football player who was injured, the, his attending surgeon was right on the scene and as they were in route to the hospital ice saline was given intravenously through the vein and an operation was performed.

Third class of honorees includes Barth, Butz, Loschiavo and Wynne.
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PHILADELPHIA – Four former St. Joseph's University baseball players, John Barth, John Butz, Chris Loschiavo, and Tom Wynne, were inducted into the St. Joseph's University Baseball Hall of Fame on Saturday, Novermber 6 at the Holiday Inn-City Line.
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Possessing outstanding control, Barth, now 51, holds the NCAA record for fewest walks in a career, allowing just 9 in 108.2 innings.A mainstay in the SJU rotation from 1968-70, he also maintains the SJU records for lowest ERA in both a season (1.03) and career (1.59).In 1970, he combined with Ed Linaugh to no-hit Glassboro State.