System to Control Body Temperature

A clinical study has shown that an endovascular temperature-management system can effectively cool or warm a patient's blood to achieve and/or maintain normothermia during cardiac surgery and in postoperative intensive care. Called SetPoint, the system has been cleared by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

SetPoint manages patient temperature by raising, lowering, and/or maintaining blood temperature. A catheter is placed into the inferior vena cava through a small access point in a patient's femoral leg vein. Cool or warm sterile saline is circulated through the catheter and either cools or warms the blood as it comes into contact with the catheter. The system permits rapid changes of temperature when required and provides precise control in maintaining temperature, states the developer, Radiant Medical, Inc. (Redwood City, CA, USA).

"Recent clinical studies in the New England Journal of Medicine on the benefits of hypothermia in neurologic outcomes in cardiac arrest victims add to the growing evidence that supports the clinical benefits of this approach,” said Ken Hayes, president and CEO of Radiant Medical. "These same articles point to the need for better technologies and methods of inducing and maintaining hypothermia for therapeutic indications.”




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