Endovascular Cooling Catheter System Which Employs Phase-Changing Heat Exchange Media

Devices and methods for cooling all or part of the body of a human or animal subject by inserting a heat exchange catheter into the subject's body and infusing into or through the catheter a heat exchange medium that contains liquid phase matter and frozen solid phase matter, wherein at least s...

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Hauptverfasser: Dabrowiak, Jeremy Thomas, Faller, Frederick
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Zusammenfassung:Devices and methods for cooling all or part of the body of a human or animal subject by inserting a heat exchange catheter into the subject's body and infusing into or through the catheter a heat exchange medium that contains liquid phase matter and frozen solid phase matter, wherein at least some of the solid phase matter melts while in the catheter.