{"id":66497,"date":"2008-04-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-engineer-develops-thermosuit-for-rapid-cooling-of-critically-ill-patients\/"},"modified":"2008-04-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T00:00:00","slug":"uri-engineer-develops-thermosuit-for-rapid-cooling-of-critically-ill-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/04\/uri-engineer-develops-thermosuit-for-rapid-cooling-of-critically-ill-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 engineer develops Thermosuit\u00ae for rapid cooling of critically ill patients"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tDrop in body temperature reduces brain damage, aids in recovery<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 30, 2008 \u2013 A 溏心vlog免费B站 biomedical engineering professor has launched a company to market a unique system he co-invented that rapidly reduces one\u2019s body temperature in emergency situations to aid in recovering from heart attacks and other serious illnesses.<\/p>\n


\n\tWilliam Ohley, who has taught in the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Engineering for 28 years, joined with medical colleagues in Louisiana and New Jersey to form Life Recovery Systems after developing what they call the Thermosuit\u00ae , a plastic suit that encases unconscious patients to flood their bodies with cold water to induce hypothermia.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cJust 10 to 20 percent of cardiac arrest patients whose hearts are restarted recover fully, primarily because the lack of blood flow to the brain causes brain damage or brain swelling,\u201d Ohley explained. \u201cBut if doctors can rapidly induce hypothermia and reduce the patient\u2019s body temperature by three to five degrees Centigrade, their chances of a full recovery are significantly greater.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tOhley said that it has long been understood that \u201cbeing cold is good for the brain and the heart,\u201d pointing to the many examples of individuals who are revived after nearly drowning in icy lakes, even when they were unconscious and under water for 30 minutes or more.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe challenge, he said, has been to create similar hypothermic conditions in emergency situations in hospital settings and elsewhere. Systems have been developed that blow cold air over the body or deploy ice packs, but they often take hours to reduce the body temperature to effective levels. Ohley\u2019s system takes just 30 minutes.<\/p>\n


\n\tSince 2001, Ohley has received $1.25 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health through its Small Business Innovation Research grants program to develop and test the device. Laboratory experiments were conducted on pigs at the 溏心vlog免费B站 in 2002 and 2003, and limited clinical trials on humans were conducted in 2005 and 2006. The Food and Drug Administration granted a 510K to allow marketing the suit as a cooling system in 2006.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe device is now being deployed in a number of hospitals around the country and internationally, and nursing and emergency room staff are being trained in its use. Hospitals using the suit report that the survival rate of patients suffering cardiac arrests has risen from 35 percent to 60 to 70 percent.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe know that many people have already been rescued by it,\u201d Ohley said.<\/p>\n


\n\tAdditional trials are planned at Rhode Island Hospital and elsewhere to examine its effectiveness for patients with acute myocardial infarctions or post resuscitative syndrome, the latter of which occurs when a patient\u2019s heart has been restarted but they haven\u2019t woken up yet. Ohley believes that stroke patients and those with brain and spinal cord injuries may also benefit from its use.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe American Heart Association\u2019s patient care guidelines indicate that the body temperature of cardiac arrest patients should be reduced to 32-34 degrees Centigrade and held there for 12 to 24 hours.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe speed of the cooling is particularly important,\u201d said Ohley. \u201cNo one else makes a device that does it as quickly as our Thermosuit.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tTo conduct further clinical studies and continue marketing the device, Ohley and colleagues are seeking additional grant funding and outside investors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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