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Automatic fever abatement system

  • US 6,447,474 B1
  • Filed: 09/15/1999
  • Issued: 09/10/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/15/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for treating fever in a warm blooded patient, the method comprising operations of:

  • deploying a treatment substance administration path at one or more bodily sites of the patient;

    coupling the path to a flow device configured to selectively deliver a treatment substance;

    deploying one or more fever characteristic sensors at one or more bodily sites of the patient;

    operating the sensors to repeatedly measure fever-affected physiological characteristics of the patient and provide representative machine-readable outputs;

    a controller receiving the outputs;

    in response to prescribed input including predetermined values of the outputs, the controller computing a supply strategy to regulate the patient'"'"'s temperature according to predetermined specifications, where the predetermined values of the outputs indicate future onset of fever; and

    the controller directing the flow device to deliver the treatment substance to the patient via the path according to the computed supply strategy.

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