CN101217924B - Portable cooling system for treatment - Google Patents
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Abstract
A disposable portable therapeutic cooling system that utilizes convective cooling and re-circulated air to efficiently, safely, and effectively cool the head and body of the patient, clothed or not, after a life-threatening health event, such as a cardiac arrest or stroke.
Description
The cross reference of related application
The application requires the U.S. Provisional Application No.60/585 of submission on July 2nd, 2004,166 interests.More than Shen Qing full content is contained in this to do reference.
Technical field
The present invention relates generally to cooling system, and more specifically but not as restrictedly relating to the portable cooling system for treatment that utilizes gas, it provides a kind of and has been suitable for immediately or the inferior cryogenic effect of use as far as possible apace the wound accident after.
Background technology
Exist this expectation correctly to cool off patient's situation as the part of clinical treatment.After heart pulsation stops, can making stopped by apoplexy or heart pulsation or patient that other are great or the life-threatening health event carries out inferior low temperature (for example temperature in 32 ℃ to 34 ℃ scopes) and handles and be benefited in more than 1 hour time.Because may be because extraneous circumstance, for example be transported to hospital and very long, so such treatment should begin as quickly as possible from incident great or life-threatening health to the time period that can treat patient body.
When judging the degree of the nerve centre damage that is caused by the ischemic diseases outbreak, temperature is an important variable (Dietrich etc., 1990).Clinically at present, temperature be considered to of apoplexy important, independent risk factor (Reith etc., 1996), and risk factor are ascribed to other risk factor of apoplexy, for example, hypertension, smoking, ventricular fibrillation, diabetes and temporary transient ischemic diseases outbreak etc.In the treatment, based on clinical research (Kammersgaard etc., 2000; Schwab etc., 1997) and show animal experiment (Cbrbett and Thornhill, 2000 of long-term nerve centre and behavior benefit; Colbourne and Corbett, 1994), think that it is useful implementing inferior low temperature (34 ℃-36 ℃) for apoplexy and patient with brain trauma.
In the treatment, by means of Bair Hugger
Obsessional type's air cooling of hypothermic blanket (wrap) and anesthetis (Kammersgaard etc., 2000) or by means of the cooling (Schwab etc., 1997) of fan and alcohol wash, the total body hypothermia of test stroke patient.Bestow pethidine anesthetis to prevent the generation of the behavior of trembleing.Attempted head cooling that cerebral trauma and stroke patient are localized more.The cooling helmet (before be cooled or make that cold water or air circulation are by them) attempts to change the reduction brain temperature by means of the heat conduction by the helmet, and (Klatz and Goldman are in the U.S. Patent No. 5,913,885 of nineteen ninety-five; Gunn and Gunn were at PCT patent application WO98/56310 in 1998).(Tsutomu and Koji are at 1998 Japanese patent publication 09-072152 to have designed the temperature that the cooling bolster that is used for head and neck area reduces patient body; 2000; Katsumitsu and Shinichi were at Japanese patent publication 10-250455 in 2000).The common volume of these equipment is very big, and for operating such devices need be about the special knowledge of this equipment effectively.
Review for exemplary existing equipment shows a kind of equipment or system of cooling off whole body in conjunction with temperature monitoring system adjusting cooling effect of needs.Need a kind of equipment that can after accident great or life-threatening health, be applied to patient immediately soon.In the pretreatment before arriving hospital, for example, during ambulance transported, this equipment especially needed.
In addition, the existing equipment volume is quite big and uncomfortable.For example, in the pretreatment before arriving hospital, when injured patient just is being transported to hospital, need a kind of equipment comfortable and that consider the patient body situation.Causing owing to apoplexy in the situation of brain injury that perhaps under the situation that heart pulsation stops, patient may be transported very long distance and arrive hospital.A lot of such patients are advanced in age, and can feel uncomfortable, come to harm or even do not respected when being loaded into this known equipment.For this reason, it is especially improper to have a big helmet-like devices of circulation of fluid or cooling property insert.In addition, the large scale of existing equipment forbids that it becomes and is used for ambulance, or the standard device of pretreatment unit before any arrival hospital with limited memory space.Existing equipment also depends on the injection of cold saline, in injection period, does not just have temperature control.
Needs are a kind of simply, the equipment of encirclement health, it can be used by rescue Med Tech, public medical health services personnel, perhaps (for example promptly send out the area patient, family) in, health is cooled off to prevent to injure the position of disease of health, and before reaching hospital, minimize the after effect of this traumatic healthy accident.
Summary of the invention
The present invention is by having satisfied these and other needs for the exploitation of portable cooling system for treatment, this system in the great or healthy accident of life-threatening (for example, heart pulsation stops or apoplexy) afterwards, utilize the air of convection current cooling and recirculation to come economic, safety immediately and cooling off clothing effectively or not clothing patient's head and health.
The invention provides a kind of portable treatment cooling unit that is used to cool off patient, it comprises:
Be used to surround patient's inflatable suit, described overcoat is suitable for allowing air circulation by described inflatable suit;
Be connected to the thermal control units of described inflatable suit, described thermal control units is suitable for the air circulation from described thermal control units is entered in the described inflatable suit;
Wherein, the air-flow by described inflatable suit is suitable for convection current ground cooling patient, to cause 32 ℃ to the 34 ℃ inferior low temperature in the temperature range in described patient.
Further, wherein said inflatable suit can be the head and the body suit of one.
Further, wherein said inflatable suit cervical region, scalp and the groin that can be suitable for patient provides cooling.
Further, wherein said inflatable suit can be with after be discardable.
Further, portable treatment provided by the invention also can comprise with cooling unit:
Be connected to the air intake of described inflatable suit;
Be connected to the air outlet slit of described inflatable suit;
Wherein, described thermal control units is connected to described inflatable suit via described air intake and described air outlet slit.
Further, the air that wherein is introduced into described inflatable suit can be suitable for being recycled to described thermal control units through described air outlet slit from described inflatable suit, wherein, described air is cooled and is introduced into described inflatable suit via described air intake.
Further, wherein said air outlet slit can be discharged into the external world from described inflatable suit with air.
Further, portable treatment provided by the invention also can comprise with cooling unit: removable power supply.
Further, wherein said removable power supply can be 12 volt DC battery.
Further, wherein said inflatable suit can be suitable for surrounding and cooling patient head and cervical region comprise carotid head-shield.
Further, portable treatment provided by the invention also can comprise from described head-shield with cooling unit provides refrigerative many emissary veins to described patient head extension with the brain area to described patient.
The present invention also provides a kind of portable cooling system for treatment, and it comprises:
Thermal control units;
Be connected to the outut device of described thermal control units;
The temperature sensor that is communicated with described thermal control units and described outut device;
Be connected to described outut device and be connected to the heat exchanger of described thermal control units;
Be connected to the cooling source of described thermal control units and described outut device;
Be electrically connected to the hair-dryer of described thermal control units and described outut device; And
Be connected to the pressure transducer of described thermal control units and described outut device;
Wherein, when described thermal control units is activated, according to input from described temperature sensor and described pressure transducer, described thermal control units guides the described hair-dryer of blows air over and by described heat exchanger, described heat exchanger is communicated with so that cooled air is provided to described outut device with described cooling source.
Further, wherein said outut device can comprise the head and the body suit of the inflatable one that is suitable for surrounding patient.
Further, wherein said outut device can comprise the inflatable head-shield that is suitable for around the patient head placement.
Further, portable cooling system for treatment provided by the invention also can comprise the flow divider between described hair-dryer and described heat exchanger and described cooling source.
Further, wherein said cooling source can be the Peltier's element with hot side and cold side.
Further, wherein said flow divider can according to the input that receives from described thermal control units will from the air-flow guiding of described hair-dryer by described Peltier's element hot side or cold side with heating or cool off described patient.
Further, wherein said outut device can be with after be discardable.
The present invention also provides a kind of portable cooling system for treatment, and it comprises:
Thermal control units;
Be connected to the outut device of described thermal control units;
The temperature sensor that is communicated with described thermal control units and described outut device;
Be connected to the cooling source of described thermal control units and described outut device;
Be electrically connected to the hair-dryer of described thermal control units and described outut device; And
Be connected to the pressure transducer of described thermal control units and described outut device;
Wherein, described thermal control units is suitable for controlling the temperature in the described outut device.
Further, portable cooling system for treatment provided by the invention also can comprise the heat exchanger that is connected to described cooling source and described thermal control units and is connected to described outut device.
Further, wherein said cooling source can be a Compressed Gas, and wherein, described Compressed Gas can be stored in the container and be connected to proportioning valve, described proportioning valve can be connected to described thermal control units, and is suitable for distributing the compressed gas scale of construction that is discharged into described outut device from described container pari passu according to the input of described thermal control units.
Further, wherein said Compressed Gas can be a fluid.
Further, wherein said cooling source can be Compressed Gas.
Further, wherein said Compressed Gas can be stored in the container, and being connected to proportioning valve, described proportioning valve can be connected to described thermal control units and be suitable for distributing the compressed gas scale of construction that is released into described outut device from described container pari passu according to the input of described thermal control units.
Further, wherein said outut device can from by the head and the body suit of the one that is suitable for surrounding patient, be suitable for surrounding the head-shield of patient head or be suitable for surrounding the group that the whole body overcoat of patient body forms and select.
Further, wherein said outut device can be with after be discardable.
Further, wherein said outut device can be inflatable.
The present invention also provides a kind of portable cooling system for treatment, and it comprises:
Thermal control units;
Outut device;
Be connected to described thermal control units and described outut device and be suitable for gas is transported to the gas propulsive device of described outut device;
The cooling source that comprises the Compressed Gas in the container, described container is connected to valve, and described valve is connected to described thermal control units again, and is connected to the upstream region of described gas propulsive device before described outut device;
Wherein, described valve is suitable for increasing or reducing the gas flow that provides to described outut device;
Be communicated with described thermal control units and described outut device and be suitable for providing temperature sensor with feedback to described thermal control units at run duration;
Wherein, the gas from described outut device is suitable for being circulated again into described gas propulsive device.
Further, wherein said outut device can be with after be discardable.
Further, wherein said outut device can from by the head and the body suit of the one that is suitable for surrounding patient, be suitable for surrounding the head-shield of patient head or be suitable for surrounding the group that the whole body overcoat of patient body forms and select.
Further, wherein said outut device can be with after be discardable.
The present invention also provides a kind of portable cooling system for treatment, and it comprises:
Thermal control units;
Outut device;
Be connected to described thermal control units and described outut device and be suitable for gas is transported to the variable-ratio gas propulsive device of described outut device;
The cooling source that comprises ice;
The heat exchanger that is communicated with described ice;
Be communicated with described thermal control units and described outut device and be suitable for providing temperature sensor with feedback to described thermal control units at run duration;
Be connected to the re-circulation line of described outut device and described variable-ratio gas propulsive device;
Wherein, described variable-ratio gas propulsive device is suitable for gas is transported the described heat exchanger that is communicated with by with described cooling source, so that the described gas that is cooled is transported to described outut device.
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By with reference to following drawings in detail of the present invention, can obtain more complete understanding for method and apparatus of the present invention, when in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, identical reference number is represented components identical, wherein:
Fig. 1 is the top partial cutaway view according to the portable cooling system for treatment shown in one embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 2 is the vertical view according to the portable cooling system for treatment of another embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 3 is the sketch map according to the portable cooling system for treatment of one embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 4 is another sketch map according to the portable cooling system for treatment of one embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 5 is another sketch map of the optional cooling system that uses with system according to the portable treatment of one embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 6 is another sketch map according to the portable cooling system for treatment of one embodiment of the invention; And
Fig. 7 is the another sketch map according to the portable cooling system for treatment of one embodiment of the invention.
The specific embodiment
The present invention is by the exploitation for portable cooling system for treatment, overcome the defective of prior art, this cooling system is suitable for being employed as quickly as possible after healthy accident, it is suitable for use in stopgap unit for example in the ambulance, perhaps in fitfully for example in the patients home of patient, this equipment is suitable for by incident personnel on the scene, nursing staff or near personnel operation other, and can be used to the patient that wears the clothes effectively.
At first, with reference to figure 1,, show the top partial cutaway view of treatment with cooling system according to one embodiment of the invention.Cooling system 100 comprises the head and the body suit 102 of the inflatable one that is connected to cooling unit 104.Preferably, inflatable suit 102 is made up of the discardable material that can allow air circulation to pass through this inflatable suit 102, but the not discardable embodiment of expection is also included within the scope of the present invention.Although the heat passage convection properties from inflatable suit 102 to patient does not require in order to cool off patient inflatable suit 102 is sealed around patient, but inflatable suit 102 is suitable for along seam 106, for example by slide fastener, button or other clamp devices that is equal to, around patient's sealing.
When a people suffers traumatic healthy accident, incident personnel on the scene, nursing staff or near the people other can be easily will clothing the wounded slip in the overcoat 102 and pass through seam 106 closed overcoats 102.In case sealing, if cooling unit 104 has been connected to overcoat, cooling unit 104 just is activated, and perhaps is connected to air intake 108 and air outlet slit 110, so also is activated.The cooling air then is imported into and spreads all over whole overcoat, and cools off patient's health by the most of regional convection current ground that surrounds the whole health of patient.The recycling feature of overcoat 102 allows system to move effectively, and makes air maintain a predetermined chilling temperature.
Although in Fig. 1, do not specifically note, power supply, for example the 12V DC equipment-as the equipment that can in ambulance, obtain-or other comprise that the power supply of alternating current transmitting apparatus can suitably be made and be used for cooling unit 104 power supplies.Alternatively, battery can be included in the cooling unit 104.
With reference now to Fig. 2,, shows the vertical view of portable cooling system for treatment 200 according to another embodiment of the present invention.This portable cooling system for treatment 200 is suitable for only being placed on around patient's the head and cervical region, and to cervical region and head, comprises that carotid artery cools off.The layout that those skilled in the art will appreciate that this portable cooling system for treatment 200 will allow other positions of body cooling via the normal blood circulation of patient body.For example, head-shield 202 is set to be connected to cooling unit 204.Head-shield 202 provides the convection current that passes through head-shield 202 around patient's scalp with the closed-loop path, and comprise the transmission path generator, it is used to transmit the brain of air with the cooling patient, for example emissary veins in the open loop (emissary vein).Head-shield 202 also comprises stretcher 206 in its fibre structure, think to allow air circulation around scalp that the space is provided.
Air intake 208 is arranged on the head-shield 202 so that dispatch tube 210 is connected to cooling unit 204.When chiller 204 was activated, the cooling air was delivered through and into head-shield 202 by dispatch tube 210, cooled off air therein around patient's head and neck area circulation and the convection current cooling is provided.
With reference now to Fig. 3,, shows sketch map according to the portable cooling system for treatment 300 of one embodiment of the invention.Control unit 302 is set, and it receives from importing at heat exchanger 304 with such as the temperature of the temperature sensor 303 between the outut device of head-shield 306 and overcoat 308.Control unit 302 provides speed control signal to hair-dryer 310, hair-dryer 310 is communicated with blows air over cooling source 314 heat exchanger 304.Pressure transducer 316 can be arranged between hair-dryer 310 and the heat exchanger 304, and is connected to the suitable speed of control unit 302 with Auxiliary Control Element 302 decision hair-dryers 310.
Therefore, when control unit 302 was activated, it was at first determined from the temperature of temperature sensor 303 with from the pressure of pressure transducer 316.Control unit 302 then provides signal to hair-dryer 310, and hair-dryer 310 starts and with blows air over heat exchanger 304.Then, which equipment to be connected to system 300 according to, and final air is sent to head-shield 306 or overcoat 308.
With reference now to Fig. 4,, shows another sketch map according to the portable cooling system for treatment 400 of one embodiment of the invention.Cooling system 400 is provided with heat exchanger and combines with the Peltier's element (peltier element) 402 of control by its air themperature.Control unit 404 is connected to hair-dryer 406, flow divider 408 and temperature sensor 410.Flow divider 408 is preset between hair-dryer 406 and the Peltier's element 402, and thereby according to control element 404 and heating or refrigerative hot side or the cold side that requires steering current to pass through Peltier's element 402.According to the structure of system 400, temperature sensor 410 is placed on the downstream of Peltier's element 402 and the upstream of head-shield 412 or overcoat 414.Like this, when utilizing head-shield 412 or overcoat 414, cooling system 400 couples of patients provide sufficient thermal control.Will be appreciated that head-shield 412 or overcoat 414 are inflatable, and head-shield 412 or overcoat 414 can be an integral body.
With reference now to Fig. 5,, shows another sketch map of the optional cooling source 500 that uses with system with portable treatment shown in Figure 6.Optionally cooling source 500 is Compressed Gas, and it generally is stored in the container such as container 502.Container 502 is connected to proportioning valve 504, and proportioning valve 504 is connected to the control unit (not shown) again, and can be connected to the heat exchanger (not shown).Alternatively, substitute and be connected to heat exchanger, valve 504 can be connected to the diluent facilities (not shown) to utilize air dilution Compressed Gas.Liquid air can be used as Compressed Gas.
Fig. 6 is another sketch map according to the portable cooling system for treatment 600 of one embodiment of the invention.System 600 comprises control unit 602, is connected to control unit 602, and the air propeller that is connected to head-shield 606 or overcoat 608 (air mover) 604 as expecting.Pressurization-gas cascade 610 also is set to be connected to valve 612.Valve 612 is connected to control unit 602, and is connected to the upstream region of air propeller 604 before head-shield 606 or overcoat 608.Temperature sensor 614 is set in the same area, and is connected to control unit 602 at run duration temperature data is provided to control unit 602.
When using overcoat 608, air is recycled to air propeller 604 to increase the efficient of system from overcoat 608.Compressed Gas for example liquid air provides the cool stream of air to head-shield 606 or overcoat 608, thereby has eliminated the needs for heat exchanger.Fluid from container 610 is controlled by valve 612, and valve 612 is guided to increase or to reduce the air-flow that passes through wherein by control unit 602 again.Although the term that uses is an air, should be appreciated that this air can comprise can provide refrigerative any gas to outut device, comprises fluid.Should also be appreciated that head-shield 606 or overcoat 608 are inflatable, and head-shield 606 or overcoat 608 can be one.
With reference now to Fig. 7,, shows another sketch map of optional portable cooling system for treatment 700.A control unit 702 is set, and it receives from importing at heat exchanger 704 with such as the temperature of the temperature sensor 703 between the outut device of head-shield 706 and overcoat 708.Control unit 702 provides speed control signal to hair-dryer 710, and hair-dryer 710 is again with blows air over and ice 712 heat exchangers that are communicated with 704.Re-circulation line can be set at overcoat 708 and can be between the hair-dryer 710 of pump etc., with the cooling effect of increase system 700.Ice 712 provides the cooling source of general easy acquisition for the user of system 700 in emergency.
Should be understood that each embodiment shown in the accompanying drawing all is of portable form, although and be not subject to this feature, promptly discardable after also being suitable for using.Like this, embodiment herein provides a kind of effective, portable cooling system for treatment, after patient suffers accident great or life-threatening health, incident personnel on the scene, nursing staff maybe can help anyone can utilize needed directions for use seldom to use this system easily.Although it will also be appreciated that be suitable for portable conduction, radiation or optional heat transfer mechanisms considered to be in the scope of the invention, cooling disclosed herein is a kind of typical case to flow cooling system.Head-shield shown in the present embodiment and overcoat are promptly discardable after being suitable for using, to avoid normally providing reusing of these equipment needed decontamination procedure.It will also be appreciated that it comprises and comprises and can provide refrigerative fluidic any gas for each outut device (for example, the head of head-shield, overcoat and one and body suit) when using the term air.
Description before is to realize the preferred embodiments of the invention, and scope of the present invention should not be subject to this explanation.On the contrary, scope of the present invention should be defined by claims.
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1. portable cooling system for treatment, it comprises:
Thermal control units;
Be connected to the outut device of described thermal control units;
The temperature sensor that is communicated with described thermal control units and described outut device;
Be connected to described outut device and be connected to the heat exchanger of described thermal control units;
Be connected to the cooling source of described thermal control units and described outut device;
Be electrically connected to the hair-dryer of described thermal control units and described outut device; And
Be connected to the pressure transducer of described thermal control units and described outut device;
Wherein, when described thermal control units is activated, according to input from described temperature sensor and described pressure transducer, described thermal control units guides the described hair-dryer of blows air over and by described heat exchanger, described heat exchanger is communicated with so that cooled air is provided to described outut device with described cooling source.
2. portable cooling system for treatment according to claim 1, wherein, described outut device comprises the head and the body suit of the inflatable one that is suitable for surrounding patient.
3. portable cooling system for treatment according to claim 1, wherein, described outut device comprises the inflatable head-shield that is suitable for around the patient head placement.
4. portable cooling system for treatment according to claim 1 also comprises the flow divider between described hair-dryer and described heat exchanger and described cooling source.
5. portable cooling system for treatment according to claim 4, wherein, described cooling source is the Peltier's element with hot side and cold side.
6. portable cooling system for treatment according to claim 5, wherein, described flow divider according to the input that receives from described thermal control units will from the air-flow guiding of described hair-dryer by described Peltier's element hot side or cold side with heating or cool off described patient.
7. portable cooling system for treatment according to claim 1, wherein, described outut device with after be discardable.
8. portable cooling system for treatment, it comprises:
Thermal control units;
Be connected to the outut device of described thermal control units;
The temperature sensor that is communicated with described thermal control units and described outut device;
Be connected to the cooling source of described thermal control units and described outut device;
Be electrically connected to the hair-dryer of described thermal control units and described outut device; And
Be connected to the pressure transducer of described thermal control units and described outut device;
Wherein, described thermal control units is suitable for controlling the temperature in the described outut device.
9. portable cooling system for treatment according to claim 8, it also comprises the heat exchanger that is connected to described cooling source and described thermal control units and is connected to described outut device.
10. portable cooling system for treatment according to claim 9, wherein, described cooling source is a Compressed Gas, and wherein, described compressed gas storage is in container and be connected to proportioning valve, described proportioning valve is connected to described thermal control units, and is suitable for distributing the compressed gas scale of construction that is discharged into described outut device from described container pari passu according to the input of described thermal control units.
11. portable cooling system for treatment according to claim 10, wherein, described Compressed Gas is a fluid.
12. portable cooling system for treatment according to claim 8, wherein, described cooling source is a Compressed Gas.
13. portable cooling system for treatment according to claim 12, wherein, described compressed gas storage is in container, and being connected to proportioning valve, described proportioning valve is connected to described thermal control units and is suitable for distributing the compressed gas scale of construction that is released into described outut device from described container pari passu according to the input of described thermal control units.
14. portable cooling system for treatment according to claim 8, wherein, described outut device from by the head and the body suit of the one that is suitable for surrounding patient, be suitable for surrounding the head-shield of patient head or be suitable for surrounding the group that the whole body overcoat of patient body forms and select.
15. portable cooling system for treatment according to claim 8, wherein, described outut device with after be discardable.
16. portable cooling system for treatment according to claim 8, wherein, described outut device is inflatable.
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