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1Center for Advanced Design, Research, and Exploration,University of Illinois at Chicago, 2Attune Medical, 3University of Maryland School of Nursing, 4University of Western Ontario, 5University Medical Centre Maribor, 6University of Maryland, 7Department of Emergency Medicine,University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center
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This study presents a novel method to provide efficient patient temperature control for cooling or warming patients. A single use, triple lumen device is placed into the esophagus, analogous to a standard orogastric tube, and connects to existing heat exchange units to perform automatic patient temperature management.
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Naiman, M. I., Gray, M., Haymore, J., Hegazy, A. F., Markota, A., Badjatia, N., Kulstad, E. B. Esophageal Heat Transfer for Patient Temperature Control and Targeted Temperature Management. J. Vis. Exp. (129), e56579, doi:10.3791/56579 (2017).
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