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Apparatus for implementing hyperthermia

  • US 6,579,496 B1
  • Filed: 05/25/1999
  • Issued: 06/17/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/25/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An apparatus for implementing hyperthermia comprising:

  • at least one catheter for creating a fluid external to an animal or patient for which hyperthermia is indicated;

    a pump in fluid communication with said at least one catheter, wherein said pump pumps fluid at approximately 2400 ml. per minute;

    a heat exchanger through which said fluid circuit flows, said heat exchanger having a fluid reservoir for maintaining fluid in the reservoir at approximately 52°

    C.;

    at least one each of a pressure sensor, temperature sensor, and alarm; and

    a computer and user interface means, adapted to receive signals from the pressure sensor and temperature sensor, for regulating a desured patient temperature, wherein said apparatus is capable of establishing the desired patient temperature in as little as twenty minutes.

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