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SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTRAVASCULAR COOLING

  • US 20090018504A1
  • Filed: 06/20/2008
  • Published: 01/15/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A device, comprising:

  • an insertion device adapted to fluidicly communicate with a source of an infusate; and

    a controller adapted to control at least one of (a) a temperature of the infusate, (b) an infusion rate of the infusate through the insertion device, and (c) a volume of the infusate passing through the insertion device in a downstream direction, in accordance with a temperature of a blood and infusate mixture downstream relative to an infusate exit location of the insertion device while the insertion device is placed in a blood vessel of a patient with a downstream flow of blood for infusion of the infusate, and in accordance with at least one of (a) a temperature of the infusate at least one of at and adjacent the exit location, (b) a temperature upstream and adjacent the exit location, and (c) a core body temperature of the patient.

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