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Method of managing patient temperature with a heat exchange catheter

  • US 6,582,398 B1
  • Filed: 09/22/2000
  • Issued: 06/24/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/19/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for managing patient temperature, comprising:

  • disposing a patient in a room of a medical facility, cooling a patient to prepare the patient for cardiovascular bypass surgery;

    performing a cardiovascular bypass surgery on the patient;

    re-warming a patient after the cardiovascular bypass surgery is performed;

    advancing a cooling catheter into the patient, the cooling catheter housing an internally circulating coolant having a coolant temperature; and

    regulating the coolant temperature to assure that the step of re-warming a patient does not result in hyperthermic patient condition.

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