GASTRIC, CUTANEOUS, OR PERITONEAL DELIVERY OF FROZEN MIST TO INDUCE THERAPEUTIC HYPERTHERMIA

摘要

Peritoneal heat exchange provides the benefit of extremely rapid cooling of the patient's target organs such as the heart and brain as well as facilitating global patient body temperature reduction to therapeutically effective temperatures. The heat exchange medium of the present invention is a chilled gaseous fluid suspension of frozen ice particles.