117 results about "Blood temperature" patented technology

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for controlling the internal body temperature of a patient. According to the present invention, a catheter is inserted through an incision into a large blood vessel of a patient. By selectively heating or cooling a portion of the catheter lying within the blood vessel, heat may be transferred to or from blood flowing within the vessel and the patient's body temperature may thereby be increased or decreased as desired. The invention will find use in treating undesirable conditions of hypothermia and hyperthermia, or for inducing a condition of artificial hypothermia when desired.

An intro-aortic balloon catheter system and method for determining cardiac output with the system including a distal end for insertion into an aorta and a proximal end opposed to the distal end, a balloon portion in proximity to the distal end which repeatedly expands and contracts so as to assist the pumping action of the heart, a catheter tube connected to the balloon portion with the catheter tube having a lumen introducing a pressurized gas into the balloon portion and leading the pressurized gas out from the balloon portion and a temperature sensor attached to the catheter tube and being electrically coupled to a connector at the proximal end of the catheter tube. The method includes inserting the temperature sensor into a lumen of the intra aortic balloon catheter system, advancing the temperature sensor until it projects freely into the aorta, injecting an injectate of a temperature different to that of the temperature of the patient's blood into the central vein of the patient, measuring the blood temperature profile versus time by means of the temperature sensor and calculating cardiac output and optionally the derived variables from the measured temperature profile.

A waterless blood heater/cooler device directly controlling temperature of blood flowing through an extracorporeal blood circuit. A thermoelectric module is coupled to a supply voltage to generate a temperature difference. A heat exchanger cassette comprising a core and first and second laminar flow guides is in thermal contact (directly or indirectly) with the thermoelectric module. The cassette has a plurality of tubes for carrying parallel channels of the blood. The first and second laminar flow guides provide an inlet and an outlet for coupling to the extracorporeal blood circuit and respective intermediate chambers for receiving respective ends of the tubes in order to guide the blood to and from respective tubes in a substantially laminar flow.

The invention provides a metabolism assessment system, which comprises a respiration monitoring module, a blood pressure and blood temperature monitoring module, a PH value measuring module, a living condition monitoring module, an impact factor monitoring module, an information processing module and a display module. The information processing module is in charge of continuously receiving, storing and transmitting information acquired by the respiration monitoring module and the impact factor monitoring module, calculating chest circumference and abdomen circumference differences of a sample between exhalation and inhalation under different impact factors, calculating a respiratory capacity within unit time in accordance with the chest circumference and abdomen circumference differences as well as a respiratory rate, and comparing the respiratory capacity with a preset threshold; and the information processing module, in combination with blood pressure, body temperature and PH value information, is used for analyzing work of respiratory dynamic performance and heart dynamic performance on blood circulation and lymphatic circulation, and for analyzing and assessing electromagnetic metabolism, chemical metabolism, mechanical metabolism and the like with the application of a correlation equation between the various impact factors. According to the comprehensive metabolism assessment system provided by the invention, human metabolism can be assessed by calculating the correlation equation on the basis of a big data technology.

Apparatus, computer system, computer program and storage medium for determining intrathoracic blood volume (ITBV) and other cardio-vascular parameters of a patient by thermodilution measurements. The apparatus comprises

• a) temperature influencing means (107) for provoking an initial local temperature change in the proximity of a first place (101) of a patient's vascular system (103), thus introducing a travelling temperature deviation to patient's blood stream,
• b) a temperature sensor device (117) for measuring the local temperature of patient's blood at a second place (102) of patient's vascular system (103) downstream of said first place (101)
• c) a computer system (104) coupled to said temperature sensor device (117) and adapted to record said patient's local blood temperature measured at said second place (102) as a function of time to determine a thermodilution curve,
• d) said computer system (104) being further adapted to determine patient's global enddiastolic blood volume (GEDV) and patient's intrathoracic thermovolume (ITTV) from said thermodilution curve,
• e) said computer system (104) being further adapted to determine patient's intrathoracic blood volume (ITBV) according to the following formula:

ITBV=f(GEDV, ITTV, P),

ITBV being the intrathoracic blood volume, GEDV being the global enddiastolic blood volume, ITTV being the intrathoracic thermovolume, P being an airway pressure inside patient's lungs. By determining ITBV not only from GEDV but also as a function of ITTV and P enhanced accuracy can be obtained, especially if the patient suffers from pulmonary edema and/or is mechanically ventilated.

The invention discloses a hollow fiber membrane oxygenator which is externally arranged on a heat exchange layer. The oxygenator comprises a housing and an upper end cover and a lower end cover detachably mounted on the housing. The housing includes an oxygenator housing, a hot water unit inner housing, an oxygenation unit housing and a core tube from the outside to the inside. The oxygenator shell and the hot water unit shell form a cavity of the hot water unit, the hot water unit shell and the oxygenation unit shell form a blood heat exchange cavity, and the oxygenation unit shell and the core pipe form a cavity of the oxygenation unit; The blood heat exchange chamber is communicated with the oxygenation unit through a circumferential opening. The hot water unit of the invention is arranged at the periphery of the oxygenation unit, so that not only the gas exchange efficiency can be improved, but also the temperature loss can be minimized to achieve the highest oxygenation efficiency. In addition, the temperature gradient of the oxygenator is very small, which can significantly reduce the probability of thrombosis in blood. At the same time, the blood temperature after oxygenation is close to the internal temperature of human body, which can bring better treatment experience.

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for controlling the internal body temperature of a patient. According to the present invention, a catheter is inserted through an incision into a large blood vessel of a patient. By selectively heating or cooling a portion of the catheter lying within the blood vessel, heat may be transferred to or from blood flowing within the vessel and the patient's body temperature may thereby be increased or decreased as desired. The invention will find use in treating undesirable conditions of hypothermia and hyperthermia, or for inducing a condition of artificial hypothermia when desired. The method and system further provide for the cooling of initially hypothermic patients whose blood or body temperature has been warmed above the desired target level and the warming of initially hyperthermic patients whose blood or body temperature has been cooled below the desired target temperature.

The present invention relates to a device (30) and a related method for determining a blood gas partial pressure in blood in a circulatory system of a subject (12) of interest. Also a system for ventilating a patient is disclosed. Temperature-related measurement values indicative of given blood temperature levels are detected. Oxygen saturation measurements of the blood of said subject (12) under consideration of said temperature-related measurement values are derived. A blood gas partial pressure of a monitored subject (12) from said derived oxygen saturation measurements is determined under consideration of present blood temperature levels of said subject (12). Preferably, pH-representative values attributable to present blood pH-values of the subject (12) are determined. More preferably, the pH-representative values are derived from an oxygen dissociation curve under consideration of changes in said derived oxygen saturation measurements of the blood attributable to detected temperature-related measurement values of the subject's blood.

The invention discloses a blood uniform mixing assisting device. The device comprises a main box. The upper side of the main box is provided with a display, viewing mirrors are arranged on the left and right sides of the main box, a support frame is installed in the main box, a telescopic shaft is installed at the lower side of the support frame, the lower end of the telescopic shaft is provided with mixing blades, a conveying plate is installed at the middle in the main box, the upper side of the conveying plate is provided with a rotating plate, the left side of the main box is provided with an indicator light, a pressing block is arranged below the indicator light, a compression spring is arranged at the lower side of the pressing block, and the left side of the pressing block is provided with a handle. The blood uniform mixing assisting device is provided with a heating plate so that a blood temperature in a blood bottle is guaranteed. A temperature sensor is arranged in the heating plate, can fast sense a temperature of the heating plate, can effectively prevent blood condensation and can prevent blood overheating. Through the pressing block and suction block design, after stirring, the blood bottle is conveyed to the heating plate. The suction block has a large suction force so that safe conveying of the blood bottle is effectively ensured.

The invention relates to a rapid-temperature-controlled transfusion pump. The rapid-temperature-controlled transfusion pump is characterized in that a dripping chamber (1) is connected with an transfusion pump body (2) through an infusion pipe (9.1), the transfusion pump body (2) is connected with a heating inductor (3) through an infusion pipe (9.2), the heating inductor (3) is connected with a gas collecting device (4) through an infusion pipe (9.3), the middle of the infusion pipe (9.3) is provided with a temperature monitoring device (5), the infusion pipe below the gas collecting device (4) is provided with branches which are connected through a ping-pang safe stop valve (8), one branch is connected with an inner circulation loop (10), the other branch is connected with a patient loop (11), a bubble monitoring device (6) is installed between the infusion pipe below the gas collecting device (4) and the inner circulation loop (10), the patient loop (11) is provided with a pressure monitor (7), and a liquid medicine inflow pipe recognizing device (12) and an infrared temperature measuring point (13) are arranged above the dripping chamber (1). By means of the rapid-temperature-controlled transfusion pump, the real-time blood temperature ranging from 0 DEG C to 4 DEG C is raised to the temperature ranging from 36 DEG C and 40 DEG C, and fast infusion with the speed of 1000 ml/min is achieved; by means of a paramagnetic body, it can be ensured that the temperature of a heating body for transfusion does not exceed 42 DEG C, and the safety of blood products is guaranteed, necessary protection is achieved for the life safety of a patient; the rapid-temperature-controlled transfusion pump has the one-key emergency infusion function to meet the first-aid need.

The invention provides a blood irradiator. The blood irradiator comprises irradiation sources, a support, a cylindrical irradiation protection cover and a temperature regulating device, wherein the irradiation sources are mounted on the support, the irradiation protection cover wraps the irradiation sources and the support, and the temperature regulating device is used for regulating blood temperature. The irradiation sources mounted on the support are distributed in the inner wall of the irradiation protection cover uniformly, and irradiation light of all the irradiation sources is focused on a central axis of the irradiation protection cover. The outer wall of the irradiation protection cover is provided with a recessed blood tube mounting groove made of irradiation-light-transmitting materials, a blood tube is mounted in the mounting groove to coincide with the central axis of the irradiation protection cover, and two ends of the blood tube extend from two ends of the irradiation protection cover. By the aid of the technical scheme, since the outer wall of the irradiation protection cover is provided with the recessed blood tube mounting groove, the blood tube can be pushed in place from an opening of the mounting groove, and convenience in mounting is achieved.