Automatic fever abatement applications

• US 20030167034A1
• Filed: 07/03/2002
• Published: 09/04/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alsius Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alsius Corporation (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
• Inventors: Balding, David P.
• Application Number:
  US10/188,778
• Publication Number:
  US 20030167034A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/66
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3368 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3606 cooled
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/00 Catheters; Hollow probes dilators A61M29/00; peritoneal catheters A61M1/285; tracheal tubes A61M16/04; for drainage A61M27/00; for uterus, vagina or rectum A61M31/00 ; for measuring or testing A61B; materials for catheters A61L29/00

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.

Claims

1. 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.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the controller counters fever by alleviating fever once the sensor indicates that the patient is febrile.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the controller counters fever by prophylactically preventing a febrile episode.