Therapeutic cooling system

A catheter system for infusing a chilled fluid into a subject can include an input lumen, a return lumen, and a transition lumen that provides sufficient flow resistance to urge a first portion of fluid flowing out of the input lumen in the forward direction to flow into the return lumen in the reve...

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Hauptverfasser: Gong, Jennifer, Sein Lwin, Crystal, Welsh, Gregory, Seybold, Brent, Nelson, Peter Kim, Berez, Aaron Lee, Chen, Stephanie, Dao, Thuong
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A catheter system for infusing a chilled fluid into a subject can include an input lumen, a return lumen, and a transition lumen that provides sufficient flow resistance to urge a first portion of fluid flowing out of the input lumen in the forward direction to flow into the return lumen in the reverse direction toward a cooling device, while a second portion of the fluid flowing out of the input lumen in the forward direction flows out of the distal end of the catheter and into the subject's blood vessel.