Thermo-Conductive System Continuously Measures Body Temperature

A new device continuously monitors patient temperature during intensive care unit (ICU), surgical, recovery room, and general patient settings.

The Abreu Brain Temperature Tunnel (BTT) 700 System sensor is a noninvasive device that measures temperature on the skin surface of the BTT, a fat-free skin area located between the eye and eyebrow, which lacks insulation tissue; since the internal portion of the tissue is in direct communication with the brain, temperature can be accurately and continuously monitored with unimpeded transfer of internal thermal energy through the skin.


The system also enables any patient's temperature to be remotely monitored from the nurse's station, reducing the need for nursing staff to check the patients' temperature continuously, including middle-of-the-night temperature checks. In addition, by detecting spikes in infections earlier, cost of treatment can be reduced and the performance of drug therapies can be improved; with better, earlier treatment, the length of hospital stays can be reduced. The Abreu BTT 700 System is a product of Brain Tunnelgenix Technologies (BTT, Hamden, CT, USA), and has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

"We are excited that medical professionals and researchers will now have access to the first product in history that enables temperature to be continuously monitored on the only truly thermoconductive skin in the body," said Rick Foreman, CEO of BTT. "This breakthrough will enable clinicians to escape their dependence on invasive thermometry and surface measurements across thermal barriers. With the exception of putting a sensor directly inside the brain, studies have shown that the BTT is the only sensor capable of detecting brain hypothermia and harmful cerebral hyperthermia.”

"One of the most important causes of death is hospital infection, which kills more than 100,000 patients a year in the United States,” added the discoverer of the BTT, Marc Abreu, M.D. "The inability to detect temperature changes in a timely fashion can lead to spread of infection and even cause death. Monitoring the brain temperature tunnel can detect infection early, so timely therapy can be administered, and complications prevented.”

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