A cold therapy apparatus includes a thermal body wrap with umbilical to a control unit with pump for circulating a thermal fluid to remove heat from a body. A coolant heat exchange assembly includes a coolant tank that is filled with a coolant and has a heat exchanger inside that is immersed in the coolant. The heat exchanger is coupled to the control unit to circulate the thermal fluid through the thermal body wrap. The coolant heat exchange assembly is removed from the control unit and placed in a cold environment to chill the coolant, and is then re-coupled during cold therapy. The process is repeated form extended therapy periods.

Thermal therapy systems, devices, and methods of using the same disclosed. A localized hypothermia of the pancreas with a delivery and placement procedure in the stomach of a patient comprising a cooling balloon system is disclosed that can be used for the treatment of pancreatitis in a patient. The cooling balloon system can have mechanisms for affecting the pancreas without impacting or inducing hypothermia in the patient in a systemic fashion. The localized hypothermia system can have a simplified delivery system and can be intended to reduce patient discomfort while reducing the metabolic activity of the inflamed pancreas of the patient.

The combination of skin-contacted stimulation together with capillary blood flow monitoring is applied in a tandem, coordinated fashion in an integrated system and method to provide early detection of compromised circulation conditions, to provide data useful for prescribing therapeutic treatments including stimulation therapies, and to monitor the effectiveness of various treatments. The disclosed methods and system can apply to a broad spectrum of diagnosed and/or undiagnosed vascular diseases and extend to detection and treatment of limb or appendage injury. An integrated device which can be a portable or a wearable product which makes use of the new system and method is disclosed.

This invention relates to various methods and systems of using therapeutic hypothermia to treat medical conditions such as cardiac arrest, myocardial ischemia, cerebral ischemia, ischemia, stroke, traumatic brain or spinal cord injuries and hypoxic-ischemic injury.

A system for cooling or heating a body part includes at least one bladder, a pump, a heat exchanger, a first fluid line in fluid communication with the heat exchanger and the at least one bladder, a second fluid line in fluid communication with the at least one bladder and the heat exchanger, a main reservoir and a separator. The heat exchanger is in fluid communication with the pump. The first fluid line is located downstream from the heat exchanger and the second fluid line is located downstream from the at least one bladder when the system is operating to cool or heat the body part. The separator is in fluid communication with the main reservoir and the pump and is located below the main reservoir to receive fluid under the influence of gravity from the main reservoir and to deliver fluid to the pump via gravity.

An ovine protector for a newborn ovine including a shaped body wrap having a body cover portion, the shaped body providing a protection from the weather; a connection system connecting at extremities the shaped body wrap to the newborn ovine, the connection system having a triangular arrangement between a front collar connection and two separate rear leg connections; and wherein the protector provides a covering over the newborn ovine with an open rear and open underneath by the connection system.

The invention provides a personal micro-climate system that reduces the energy requirement to keep a person cool by providing a personal air-conditioned space specially for bed-ridden patients. A dome is provided to create a personal space that just cools the area where the patient is at avoiding wasting energy in cooling the room's floor, ceiling, walls and empty space. The cooling system can be energized through solar power, deep cycle battery packs, small power plant or through a combination thereof. The system allows for the movement of an automatic or semi-automatic bed. A transparent cover is stretched over a frame structure to allow for maximum visibility from the inside out and vice versa. The system allows ease of opening an attendant window for patient care or to help a bedridden patient in an emergency. Breathing tubes, feeding tubes, IV lines, sensors and cables can be fed into the dome through openings between a mattress cover and the micro-climate dome. The personal microclimate system serves as a positive or negative personal isolation chamber provided with high-efficiency particulate air filters and ultraviolet germicidal irradiation systems. An anteroom can be added next to the micro-climate dome and/or a secondary larger structure may be added to enclose the micro-climate dome.

A far infrared film structure and a method of manufacturing the same are provided in this disclosure. The far infrared film structure includes a substrate, an oxide thin film, and an electrothermal film. The substrate has a metallic foil sheet and a plastic film overlappingly combined with each other. The oxide thin film is combined onto the metallic foil sheet and consists of an oxide gel formed by mixing an oxide powder and a sol. The electrothermal film is combined onto the plastic film, and the electrothermal film, the oxide thin film, and the substrate together constitute a flexible thin plate. Thus, the far infrared film structure is bendable to conform closely to the contours of a human body and also has a high content of the oxide powder. Therefore, the far infrared film structure is convenient to use and has a good far infrared emission rate.

One variation of a method for fabricating a dermal heatsink includes: fabricating a substrate defining an interior surface, an exterior surface opposite the interior surface, and an open network of pores extending between the interior surface and the exterior surface; activating surfaces of the substrate and walls of the open network of pores; applying a coating over the substrate to form a heatsink, the coating comprising a porous, hydrophilic material and defining a void network; removing an excess of the coating from the substrate to clear blockages within the open network of pores by the coating; hydrating the heatsink during a curing period; heating the heatsink during the curing period to increase porosity of the coating applied over surfaces of the substrate; and rinsing the heatsink with an acid to decarbonate the coating along walls of the open network of pores in the substrate.

A system and method for portably delivering a therapeutic dose of heat to the skin to relieve pain, reduce accommodation of thermal nerve receptors, promote healing, and deliver transcutaneous medications. The heating device is user programmable or preprogrammed to deliver according to a variety of cycles, patterns and algorithms. The cycles, patterns, and algorithms of the heat are programmable parameters, are under the user's control, and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the device. The heating algorithms are designed to interact with an individual user's thermal nerve receptors and other tissue characteristics and to reduce the tendency of the receptors to accommodate to the external stimuli with back pain, muscular pain, dysmenorrhea, headaches, fibromyalgia, post-herpetic neuralgia, nerve injuries and neuropathies, and sprains and strain. The device can also be used in conjunction with existing medical devices such as Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulators (TENS) to increase the effectiveness of TENS devices.