Automated therapy system and method

摘要

An automated therapy system having an infusion catheter; a sensor adapted to sense a patient parameter; and a controller communicating with the sensor and programmed to control flow output from the infusion catheter into a patient based on the patient parameter without removing fluid from the patient. The invention also includes a method of controlling infusion of a fluid to a patient. The method includes the following steps: monitoring a patient parameter with a sensor to generate a sensor signal; providing the sensor signal to a controller; and adjusting fluid flow to the patient based on the sensor signal without removing fluid from the patient.

主权项

1. A method of inducing and reversing therapeutic hypothermia in a patient, the method comprising:
infusing a therapeutic agent through a catheter into a peritoneal cavity of the patient; monitoring an effect of the therapeutic agent on the patient with a sensor which generates a sensor signal; providing the sensor signal to a controller; and adjusting infusion of the therapeutic agent from the catheter to the peritoneal cavity with the controller based on the sensor signal to induce or reverse therapeutic hypothermia in the patient without removing the therapeutic agent from the patient; where access to the peritoneal cavity is sensed via an access sensor to aid insertion into the peritoneal cavity.