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Device for cooling infant's brain
Joseph P Stefanile
,
Dale J Dell'Ario
,
Steven G Miles
,
Olympic Medical Corp.
ABSTRACT
A device for cooling an infant's brain includes a cooling liner that may be sandwiched between an outer padded cap and an inner elastic liner. The device fits closely over the infant's skull and is cooled by a recirculating cooling fluid passing through a serpentine conduit. One application for the device is to cool a newborn infant's brain that has suffered a hypoxic shock.
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Claims
What is claimed is:1. A device for cooling the brain of an infant whose brain has suffered a hypoxic shock, the device comprising:a cooling liner for placement on the infant's skull, the cooling liner having a top and comprising only one fluid conduit for receiving a cooling fluid, the fluid conduit beginning at an inlet located at the top and terminating at an outlet located at the top, being serpentine in shape between the inlet and the outlet and configured so that the fluid conduit travels f...