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US 2003/0167034 A1Published application
Automatic fever abatement applications
OwnerDavid P. Baldinginventor
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Abstract
A method for treating fever by establishing a closed loop pathway to flow a treatment substance through a patient's body without the substance entering the patient's bloodstream, by engaging a fever characteristic sensor with the patient, by receiving a signal from such sensor and using the controller to control temperature and/or flow of the treatment substance.
Claims3
A method for treating fever comprising:
- establishing a pathway for fluid communication for a treatment substance to flow in a closed loop through a patient's body without entering the bloodstream;
- engaging at least one fever characteristic sensor with the patient;
- receiving signals from the sensor at a controller;
- using the controller to control at least one of:
- temperature, and flow, of the treatment substance to counter fever in the patient.
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