METHOD TO DETECT CHANGES IN A PATIENT'S ENDOGENOUS TEMPERATURE SET-POINT DURING EXTERNALLY INDUCED TARGETED TEMPERATURE MANAGEMENT

摘要

A method for utilizing heat transfer parameters or energy expenditure of devices providing controlled hypothermia, normothermia or hyperthermia to detect changes, or the absence of changes, a patient's endogenous set-point temperature; which is not available during exogenously induced targeted temperature management. A particular embodiment would allow detection of fever in patients undergoing targeted temperature managed.

主权项

1. A method for detecting changes, or absence of changes, in a patient's endogenous set-point temperature, a particular example being the detection of fever, during the utilization of targeted temperature management for induction or maintenance of therapeutic hypothermia, normothermia or hyperthermia, the method comprising:
detection and measurement of a change or lack of change in the status of one or more components of the targeted temperature management device; utilization of these measurements, or mathematically transformed versions of these measurements, as a surrogate for a change or absence of change in the patient's endogenous set-point temperature.