Method for inducing hypothermia in a patient
AssigneeNeuron Guard S.r.l.
InventorEnrico Giuliani
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Abstract
A therapeutic collar comprising an elongate body made from a flexible material for extending around at least a portion of the neck of a patient. The body has a length approximating the circumference of the neck, two thermoelectric devices for overlying two carotid arteries in the neck and two thermoelectric devices for overlying of two vertebral arteries in the neck when the elongate body is secured around the neck of the patient. At least one cooling tube is carried by the elongate body and extends in the vicinity of each of the thermoelectric devices for removing heat from the thermoelectric devices.
Claims13
A method for inducing hypothermia in a patient having a neck with a carotid artery and a vertebral artery extending through each side of the neck to anterior cerebral arteries, middle cerebral arteries, posterior cerebral arteries and a basilar artery in a brain, comprising placing a collar around the neck, placing a first cooling assembly directly over the carotid artery and the vertebral artery on one side of the neck and placing a second cooling assembly directly over the carotid artery and the vertebral artery on the other side of the neck, cooling each of the carotid and vertebral arteries in the neck with the first cooling assembly and the second cooling assembly, measuring the temperature of the neck overlying each of the carotid arteries and adjusting the cooling of each of the carotid arteries in response to the respective measured temperature of the carotid arteries and measuring the temperature of the neck overlying each of the vertebral arteries and adjusting the cooling of each of the vertebral arteries in response to the respective measured temperature of the vertebral arteries so as to cause controlled cooling of the anterior cerebral arteries, the middle cerebral arteries, the posterior cerebral arteries and the basilar artery and induce hypothermia in the brain of the patient.
A method for inducing hypothermia in a patient having a neck with a carotid artery and a vertebral artery extending through each side of the neck to anterior cerebral arteries, middle cerebral arteries, posterior cerebral arteries and a basilar artery in a brain, comprising placing a first independently-controlled cooling assembly directly over the carotid artery and the vertebral artery on one side of the neck and placing a second independently-controlled cooling assembly directly over the carotid artery and the vertebral artery on the other side of the neck, cooling each of the carotid and vertebral arteries in the neck with the first independently-controlled cooling assembly and the second independently-controlled cooling assembly, measuring the temperature of the neck overlying each of the carotid arteries and adjusting the cooling of each of the carotid arteries in response to the respective measured temperature of the carotid arteries and measuring the temperature of the neck overlying each of the vertebral arteries and adjusting the cooling of each of the vertebral arteries in response to the respective measured temperature of the vertebral arteries so as to cause controlled cooling of the anterior cerebral arteries, the middle cerebral arteries, the posterior cerebral arteries and the basilar artery and induce hypothermia in the brain of the patient.
A method for inducing hypothermia in a patient having a neck with a carotid artery and a vertebral artery extending through each side of the neck to anterior cerebral arteries, middle cerebral arteries, posterior cerebral arteries and a basilar artery in a brain, comprising placing a first independently-controlled cooling assembly directly over the carotid artery and the vertebral artery on one side of the neck and placing a second independently-controlled cooling assembly directly over the carotid artery and the vertebral artery on the other side of the neck and cooling each of the carotid and vertebral arteries in the neck with the first independently-controlled cooling assembly and the second independently-controlled cooling assembly, measuring the temperature of the neck overlying each of the carotid arteries and adjusting the cooling of at least one of the carotid arteries in response to the measured temperature of the at least one of the carotid arteries and measuring the temperature of the neck overlying each of the vertebral arteries and adjusting the cooling of at least one of the vertebral arteries in response to the measured temperature of the at least one of the vertebral arteries so as to cause controlled cooling of the anterior cerebral arteries, the middle cerebral arteries, the posterior cerebral arteries and the basilar artery and induce hypothermia in the brain of the patient.
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