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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to the modification and control of the temperature of a selected body organ. More particularly, the invention relates to a method and intravascular apparatus for controlling organ temperature.
2. Background Information
Organs in the human body, such as the brain, kidney and heart, are maintained at a constant temperature of approximately 37° C. Hypothermia can be clinically defined as a core body temperature of 35° C. or less. Hypothermia is sometimes characterized further according to its severity. A body core temperature in the range of 33° C. to 35° C. is described as mild hypothermia. A body temperature of 28° C. to 32° C. is described as moderate hypothermia. A body core temperature in the range of 24° C. to 28° C. is described as severe hypothermia.
Hypothermia is uniquely effective in reducing brain injury caused by a variety of neurological insults and may eventually play an important role in emergency brain resuscitation. Experimental evidence has demonstrated that cerebral cooling improves outcome after global ischemia, focal ischemia, or traumatic brain injury. For this reason, hypothermia may be induced in order to reduce the effect of certain bodily injuries to the brain as well as other organs.
Cerebral hypothermia has traditionally been accomplished through whole body cooling to create a condition of total body hypothermia in the range of 20° C. to 30° C. However, the use of total body hypothermia risks certain deleterious systematic vascular effects. For example, total body hypothermia may cause severe derangement of the cardiovascular system, including low cardiac output, elevated systematic resistance, and ventricular fibrillation. Other side effects include renal failure, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and electrolyte disturbances. In addition to the undesirable side effects, total body hypothermia is difficult to administer.
Catheters have been developed which are inserted into the bloodstream of the patient in order to induce total body hypothermia. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 3,425,419 to Dato describes a method and apparatus of lowering and raising the temperature of the human body. Dato induces moderate hypothermia in a patient using a metallic catheter. The metallic catheter has an inner passageway through which a fluid, such as water, can be circulated. The catheter is inserted through the femoral vein and then through the inferior vena cava as far as the right atrium and the superior vena cava. The Dato catheter has an elongated cylindrical shape and is constructed from stainless steel. By way of example, Dato suggests the use of a catheter approximately 70 cm in length and approximately 6 mm in diameter. However, use of the Dato device implicates the negative effects of total body hypothermia described above.
Due to the problems associated with total body hypothermia, attempts have been made to provide more selective cooling. For example, cooling helmets or head gear have been used in an attempt to cool only the head rather than the patient's entire body. However, such methods rely on conductive heat transfer through the skull and into the brain. One drawback of using conductive heat transfer is that the process of reducing the temperature of the brain is prolonged. Also, it is difficult to precisely control the temperature of the brain when using conduction due to the temperature gradient that must be established externally in order to sufficiently lower the internal temperature. In addition, when using conduction to cool the brain, the face of the patient is also subjected to severe hypothermia, increasing discomfort and the likelihood of negative side effects. It is known that profound cooling of the face can cause similar cardiovascular side effects as total body cooling. From a practical standpoint, such devices are cumbersome and may make continued treatment of the patient difficult or impossible.
Selected organ hypothermia has been accomplished using extracorporeal perfusion, as detailed by Arthur E. Schwartz, M.D. et al., in Isolated Cerebral Hypothermia by Single Carotid Artery Perfusion of Extracorporeally Cooled Blood in Baboons, which appeared in Vol. 39, No. 3, NEUROSURGERY 577 (September, 1996). In this study, blood was continually withdrawn from baboons through the femoral artery. The blood was cooled by a water bath and then infused through a common carotid artery with its external branches occluded. Using this method, normal heart rhythm, systemic arterial blood pressure and arterial blood gas values were maintained during the hypothermia. This study showed that the brain could be selectively cooled to temperatures of 20° C. without reducing the temperature of the entire body. However, external circulation of blood is not a practical approach for treating humans because the risk of infection, need for anticoagulation, and risk of bleeding is too great. Further, this method requires cannulation of two vessels making it more cumbersome to perform particularly in emergency settings. Even more, percutaneous cannulation of the carotid artery is difficult and potentially fatal due to the associated arterial wall trauma. Finally, this method would be ineffective to cool other organs, such as the kidneys, because the feeding arteries cannot be directly cannulated percutaneously.
Selective organ hypothermia has also been attempted by perfusion of a cold solution such as saline or perflourocarbons. This process is commonly used to protect the heart during heart surgery and is referred to as cardioplegia. Perfusion of a cold solution has a number of drawbacks, including a limited time of administration due to excessive volume accumulation, cost, and inconvenience of maintaining the perfusate and lack of effectiveness due to the temperature dilution from the blood. Temperature dilution by the blood is a particular problem in high blood flow organs such as the brain.
Therefore, a practical method and apparatus which modifies and controls the temperature of a selected organ satisfies a long-felt need.
The apparatus of the present invention can, by way of example only, include a heat transfer element which comprises first and second elongated, articulated segments, each segment having a turbulence-inducing exterior surface. A flexible joint can connect the first and second elongated segments. An inner coaxial lumen may be disposed within the first and second elongated segments and is capable of transporting a pressurized working fluid to a distal end of the first elongated segment. In addition, the first and second elongated segments may have a turbulence-inducing interior surface for inducing turbulence within the pressurized working fluid. The turbulence-inducing exterior surface may be adapted to induce turbulence within a free stream of blood flow when placed within an artery. The turbulence-inducing exterior surface may be adapted to induce a turbulence intensity greater than 0.05 within a free stream blood flow. In one embodiment, the flexible joint comprises a bellows section which also allows for axial compression of the heat transfer element.
In one embodiment, the turbulence-inducing exterior surfaces of the heat transfer element comprise one or more helical ridges configured to have a depth which is greater than a thickness of a boundary layer of blood which develops within an arterial blood flow. Adjacent segments of the heat transfer element can be oppositely spiraled to increase turbulence. For instance, the first elongated heat transfer segment may comprise one or more helical ridges having a counter-clockwise twist, while the second elongated heat transfer segment comprises one or more helical ridges having a clockwise twist. Alternatively, of course, the first elongated heat transfer segment may comprise one or more clockwise helical ridges, and the second elongated heat transfer segment may comprise one or more counter-clockwise helical ridges. The first and second elongated, articulated segments may be formed from highly conductive materials.
In another embodiment, the turbulence-inducing exterior surface of the heat transfer element is adapted to induce turbulence throughout the duration of each pulse of a pulsatile blood flow when placed within an artery. In still another embodiment, the turbulence-inducing exterior surface of the heat transfer element is adapted to induce turbulence during at least 20% of the period of each cardiac cycle when placed within an artery.
The heat transfer device may also have a coaxial supply catheter with an inner catheter lumen coupled to the inner coaxial lumen within the first and second elongated heat transfer segments. A working fluid supply configured to dispense the pressurized working fluid may be coupled to the inner catheter lumen. The working fluid supply may be configured to produce the pressurized working fluid at a temperature of about 0° C. and at a pressure below about 5 atmospheres of pressure.
In yet another alternative embodiment, the heat transfer device may have three or more elongated, articulated, heat transfer segments having a turbulence-inducing exterior surface, with additional flexible joints connecting the additional elongated heat transfer segments. In one such embodiment, by way of example, the first and third elongated heat transfer segments may comprise clockwise helical ridges, and the second elongated heat transfer segment may comprise one or more counter-clockwise helical ridges. Alternatively, of course, the first and third elongated heat transfer segments may comprise counter-clockwise helical ridges, and the second elongated heat transfer segment may comprise one or more clockwise helical ridges.
The turbulence-inducing exterior surface of the heat transfer element may optionally include a surface coating or treatment to inhibit clot formation. One variation of the heat transfer element comprises a stent coupled to a distal end of the first elongated heat transfer segment.
The present invention also envisions a method of treating the brain which comprises the steps of inserting a flexible, conductive heat transfer element into a carotid artery from a distal location, and circulating a working fluid through the flexible, conductive heat transfer element in order to selectively modify the temperature of the brain without significantly modifying the temperature of the entire body. The flexible, conductive heat transfer element preferably absorbs more than about 25, 50 or 75 Watts of heat.
The method may also comprise the step of inducing turbulence within the free stream blood flow within the carotid artery. In one embodiment, the method includes the step of inducing blood turbulence with a turbulence intensity greater than about 0.05 within the carotid artery. In another embodiment, the method includes the step of inducing blood turbulence throughout the duration of the period of the cardiac cycle within the carotid artery. In yet another embodiment, the method comprises the step of inducing blood turbulence throughout the period of the cardiac cycle within the carotid artery or during greater than about 20% of the period of the cardiac cycle within the carotid artery. The step of circulating may comprise the step of inducing turbulent flow of the working fluid through the flexible, conductive heat transfer element. The pressure of the working fluid may be maintained below about 5 atmospheres of pressure.
The present invention also envisions a method for selectively cooling an organ in the body of a patient which comprises the steps of introducing a catheter, with a heat transfer element, into a blood vessel supplying the organ, the catheter having a diameter of about 4 mm or less, inducing free stream turbulence in blood flowing over the heat transfer element, and cooling the heat transfer element to remove heat from the blood to cool the organ without substantially cooling the entire body. In one embodiment, the cooling step removes at least about 75 Watts of heat from the blood. In another embodiment, the cooling step removes at least about 100 Watts of heat from the blood. The organ being cooled may be the human brain.
The step of inducing free stream turbulence may induce a turbulence intensity greater than about 0.05 within the blood vessel. The step of inducing free stream turbulence may induce turbulence throughout the duration of each pulse of blood flow. The step of inducing free stream turbulence may induce turbulence for at least about 20% of the duration of each pulse of blood flow.
In one embodiment, the catheter has a flexible metal tip and the cooling step occurs at the tip. The tip may have turbulence-inducing elongated heat transfer segments separated by bellows sections. The turbulence-inducing segments may comprise helical ridges which are configured to have a depth which is greater than a thickness of a boundary layer of blood which develops within the blood vessel. In another embodiment, the catheter has a tip at which the cooling step occurs and the tip has turbulence-inducing elongated heat transfer segments that alternately spiral bias the surrounding blood flow in clockwise and counterclockwise directions.
The cooling step may comprise the step of circulating a working fluid in through an inner lumen in the catheter and out through an outer, coaxial lumen. In one embodiment, the working fluid remains a liquid throughout the cycle. The working fluid may be aqueous.
The present invention also envisions a cooling catheter comprising a catheter shaft having first and second lumens therein. The cooling catheter also comprises a cooling tip adapted to transfer heat to or from a working fluid circulated in through the first lumen and out through the second lumen, and turbulence-inducing structures on the cooling tip capable of inducing free stream turbulence when the tip is inserted into a blood vessel. The turbulence-inducing structures may induce a turbulence intensity of at least about 0.05. The cooling tip may be adapted to induce turbulence within the working fluid. The catheter is capable of removing at least about 25 Watts of heat from an organ when inserted into a vessel supplying that organ, while cooling the tip with a working fluid that remains a liquid in the catheter. Alternatively, the catheter is capable of removing at least about 50 or 75 Watts of heat from an organ when inserted into a vessel supplying that organ, while cooling the tip with an aqueous working fluid. In one embodiment, in use, the tip has a diameter of about 4 mm or less. Optionally, the turbulence-inducing surfaces on the heat transfer segments comprise helical ridges which have a depth sufficient to disrupt the free stream blood flow in the blood vessel. Alternatively, the turbulence-inducing surfaces may comprise staggered protrusions from the outer surfaces of the heat transfer segments, which have a height sufficient to disrupt the free stream flow of blood within the blood vessel.
In another embodiment, a cooling catheter may comprise a catheter shaft having first and second lumens therein, a cooling tip adapted to transfer heat to or from a working fluid circulated in through the first lumen and out through the second lumen, and turbulence-inducing structures on the cooling tip capable of inducing turbulence when the tip is inserted into a blood vessel. Alternatively, a cooling catheter may comprise a catheter shaft having first and second lumens therein, a cooling tip adapted to transfer heat to or from a working fluid circulated in through the first lumen and out through the second lumen, and structures on the cooling tip capable of inducing free stream turbulence when the tip is inserted into a blood vessel. In another embodiment, a cooling catheter may comprise a catheter shaft having first and second lumens therein, a cooling tip adapted to transfer heat to or from a working fluid circulated in through the first lumen and out through the second lumen, and turbulence-inducing structures on the cooling tip capable of inducing turbulence with an intensity greater than about 0.05 when the tip is inserted into a blood vessel.
The novel features of this invention, as well as the invention itself, will be best understood from the attached drawings, taken along with the following description, in which similar reference characters refer to similar parts, and in which:
In order to intravascularly regulate the temperature of a selected organ, a heat transfer element may be placed in the feeding artery of the organ to absorb or deliver the heat from or to the blood flowing into the organ. The transfer of heat may cause either a cooling or a heating of the selected organ. The heat transfer element must be small enough to fit within the feeding artery while still allowing a sufficient blood flow to reach the organ in order to avoid ischemic organ damage. A heat transfer element which selectively cools an organ should be capable of providing the necessary heat transfer rate to produce the desired cooling or heating effect within the organ. By placing the heat transfer element within the feeding artery of an organ, the temperature of an organ can be controlled without significantly affecting the remaining parts of the body. These points can be illustrated by using brain cooling as an example.
The common carotid artery supplies blood to the head and brain. The internal carotid artery branches off of the common carotid to directly supply blood to the brain. To selectively cool the brain, the beat transfer element is placed into the common carotid artery, or both the common carotid artery and the internal carotid artery. The internal diameter of the common carotid artery ranges from 6 to 8 mm and the length ranges from 80 to 120 mm. Thus, the heat transfer element residing in one of these arteries cannot be much larger than 4 mm in diameter in order to avoid occluding the vessel.
It is important that the heat transfer element be flexible in order to be placed within the small feeding artery of an organ. Feeding arteries, like the carotid artery, branch off the aorta at various levels. Subsidiary arteries continue to branch off the initial branches. For example, the internal carotid artery is a small diameter artery that branches off of the common carotid artery near the angle of the jaw. Because the heat transfer element is typically inserted into a peripheral artery, such as the femoral artery, and accesses the feeding artery by initially passing though a series of one or more of these branches, the flexibility of the heat transfer element is an important characteristic of the heat transfer element. Further, the heat transfer element is ideally constructed from a highly thermally conductive material such as metal in order to facilitate heat transfer. The use of a highly thermally conductive material increases the heat transfer rate for a given temperature differential between the coolant within the heat transfer element and the blood. This facilitates the use of a higher temperature coolant within the heat transfer element, allowing safer coolants, such as water, to be used. Highly thermally conductive materials, such as metals, tend to be rigid. Therefore, the design of the heat transfer element should facilitate flexibility in an inherently inflexible material.
In order to obtain the benefits of hypothermia described above, it is desirable to reduce the temperature of the blood flowing to the brain to between 30° C. and 32° C. Given that a typical brain has a blood flow rate through each carotid artery (right and left) of approximately 250-375 cubic centimeters per minute, the heat transfer element should absorb 75-175 Watts of heat when placed in one of the carotid arteries, in order to induce the desired cooling effect. It should be noted that smaller organs may have less blood flow in the supply artery and may require less heat transfer, such as 25 Watts.
When a heat transfer element is inserted coaxially into an artery, the primary mechanism of heat transfer between the surface of the heat transfer element and the blood is forced convection. Convection relies upon the movement of fluid to transfer heat. Forced convection results when an external force causes motion within the fluid. In the case of arterial flow, the beating heart causes the motion of the blood around the heat transfer element.
The magnitude of the heat transfer rate is proportional to the surface area of the heat transfer element, the temperature differential, and the heat transfer coefficient of the heat transfer element.
As noted above, the receiving artery into which the heat transfer element is placed has a limited diameter and length. Thus, surface area of the heat transfer element must be limited, to avoid significant obstruction of the artery, and to allow the heat transfer element to easily pass through the vascular system. For placement within the internal and common carotid artery, the cross sectional diameter of the heat transfer element is limited to about 4 mm, and its length is limited to approximately 10 cm.
The temperature differential can be increased by decreasing the surface temperature of the heat transfer element. However, the minimum allowable surface temperature is limited by the characteristics of blood. Blood freezes at approximately 0° C. When the blood approaches freezing, ice emboli may form in the blood which may lodge downstream, causing serious ischemic injury. Furthermore, reducing the temperature of the blood also increases its viscosity, which results in a small decrease in the value of the convection heat transfer coefficient. In addition, increased viscosity of the blood may result in an increase in the pressure drop within the artery, thus, compromising the flow of blood to the brain. Given the above constraints, it is advantageous to limit the minimum allowable surface temperature of the heat transfer element to approximately 5° C. This results in a maximum temperature differential between the blood stream and the heat transfer element of approximately 32° C.
The mechanisms by which the value of the convection heat transfer coefficient may be increased are complex. However, it is well known that the convection heat transfer coefficient increases with the level of turbulent kinetic energy in the fluid flow. Thus it is advantageous to have turbulent blood flow in contact with the heat transfer element.
Under constant pressure conditions, steady flows in pipes are characterized as a balance between viscous stresses and the constant pressure gradient. Such flows are called Poiseuillean.
Under conditions of Poiseuillean flow, the Reynolds number, the ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces, can be used to characterize the level of turbulent kinetic energy existing in the flow. For Poiseuillean flows, Reynolds numbers must be greater than about 2300 to cause a transition from laminar to turbulent flow. Further, when the Reynolds number is greater than about 2000, the boundary layer is receptive to “tripping”. Tripping is a process by which a small perturbation in the boundary layer can create turbulent conditions. The receptivity of a boundary layer to “tripping” is proportional to the Reynolds number and is nearly zero for Reynolds numbers less than 2000.
In contrast with the steady Poiscuillean flow, the blood flow in arteries is induced by the beating heart and is therefore pulsatile.
Because of the relatively short duration of the cardiac pulse, the blood flow in the arteries does not develop into the classic Poiseuillean flow.
As noted above, if the flow in the artery were steady rather than pulsatile, the transition from laminar to turbulent flow would occur when the value of the Reynolds number exceeds about 2,000. However, in the pulsatile arterial flow, the value of the Reynolds number varies during the cardiac cycle, just as the flow velocity varies. In pulsatile flows, due to the enhanced stability associated with the acceleration of the free stream flow, the critical value of the Reynolds number at which the unstable modes of motion grow into turbulence is found to be much higher, perhaps as high as 9,000.
The blood flow in the arteries of interest remains laminar over more than 80% of the cardiac cycle. Referring again to
A thin boundary layer has been shown to form during the cardiac cycle. This boundary layer will form over the surface of a smooth heat transfer element.
One way to increase the heat transfer rate is to create a turbulent boundary layer on the heat transfer element surface. However, turbulence in the very thin boundary layer will not produce sufficient kinetic energy to produce the necessary heat transfer rate. Therefore, to induce sufficient turbulent kinetic energy to increase the heat transfer rate sufficiently to cool the brain, a stirring mechanism, which abruptly changes the direction of velocity vectors, should be utilized. This can create high levels of turbulence intensity in the free stream, thereby sufficiently increasing the heat transfer rate.
This turbulence intensity should ideally be sustained for a significant portion of the cardiac cycle. Further, turbulent kinetic energy should ideally be created throughout the free stream and not just in the boundary layer.
To create the desired level of turbulence intensity in the blood free stream during the whole cardiac cycle, one embodiment of the invention uses a modular design. This design creates helical blood flow and produces a high level of turbulence in the free stream by periodically forcing abrupt changes in the direction of the helical blood flow.
The use of periodic abrupt changes in the helical direction of the blood flow in order to induce strong free stream turbulence may be illustrated with reference to a common clothes washing machine. The rotor of a washing machine spins initially in one direction causing laminar flow. When the rotor abruptly reverses direction, significant turbulent kinetic energy is created within the entire wash basin as the changing currents cause random turbulent motion within the clothes-water slurry.
The first heat transfer segment 20 is coupled to a second elongated heat transfer segment 22 by a first bellows section 25, which provides flexibility and compressibility. The second heat transfer segment 22 comprises one or more helical ridges 32 with one or more helical grooves 30 therebetween. The ridges 32 and grooves 30 have a right hand, or clockwise, twist as they proceed toward the distal end of the heat transfer segment 22. The second heat transfer segment 22 is coupled to a third elongated heat transfer segment 24 by a second bellows section 27. The third heat transfer segment 24 comprises one or more helical ridges 36 with one or more helical grooves 34 therebetween. The helical ridge 36 and the helical groove 34 have a left hand, or counter-clockwise, twist as they proceed toward the distal end of the heat transfer segment 24. Thus, successive heat transfer segments 20, 22, 24 of the heat transfer element 14 alternate between having clockwise and counterclockwise helical twists. The actual left or right hand twist of any particular segment is immaterial, as long as adjacent segments have opposite helical twist.
In addition, the rounded contours of the ridges 28, 32, 36 also allow the heat transfer element 14 to maintain a relatively atraumatic profile, thereby minimizing the possibility of damage to the blood vessel wall. A heat transfer element according to the present invention may be comprised of two, three, or more heat transfer segments.
The bellows sections 25, 27 are formed from seamless and nonporous materials, such as metal, and therefore are impermeable to gas, which can be particularly important, depending on the type of working fluid which is cycled through the heat transfer element 14. The structure of the bellows sections 25, 27 allows them to bend, extend and compress, which increases the flexibility of the heat transfer element 14 so that it is more readily able to navigate through blood vessels. The bellows sections 25, 27 also provide for axial compression of the heat transfer element 14, which can limit the trauma when the distal end of the heat transfer element 14 abuts a blood vessel wall. The bellows sections 25, 27 are also able to tolerate cryogenic temperatures without a loss of performance.
The exterior surfaces of the heat transfer element 14 can be made from metal, and may comprise very high thermal conductivity materials such as nickel, thereby facilitating heat transfer. Alternatively, other metals such as stainless steel, titanium, aluminum, silver, copper and the like, can be used, with or without an appropriate coating or treatment to enhance biocompatibility or inhibit clot formation. Suitable biocompatible coatings include, e.g., gold, platinum or polymer paralyene. The heat transfer element 14 may be manufactured by plating a thin layer of metal on a mandrel that has the appropriate pattern. In this way, the heat transfer element 14 may be manufactured inexpensively in large quantities, which is an important feature in a disposable medical device.
Because the heat transfer element 14 may dwell within the blood vessel for extended periods of time, such as 24-48 hours or even longer, it may be desirable to treat the surfaces of the heat transfer element 14 to avoid clot formation. In particular, one may wish to treat the bellows sections 25, 27 because stagnation of the blood flow may occur in the convolutions, thus allowing clots to form and cling to the surface to form a thrombus. One means by which to prevent thrombus formation is to bind an antithrombogenic agent to the surface of the heat transfer element 14. For example, heparin is known to inhibit clot formation and is also known to be useful as a biocoating. Alternatively, the surfaces of the heat transfer element 14 may be bombarded with ions such as nitrogen. Bombardment with nitrogen can harden and smooth the surface and, thus prevent adherence of clotting factors to the surface.
It is important to note that the same mechanisms that govern the heat transfer rate between the exterior surface 37 of the heat transfer element 14 and the blood also govern the heat transfer rate between the working fluid and the interior surface 38 of the heat transfer element 14. The heat transfer characteristics of the interior surface 38 are particularly important when using water, saline or other fluid which remains a liquid as the coolant. Other coolants such as freon undergo nucleate boiling and create turbulence through a different mechanism. Saline is a safe coolant because it is non-toxic, and leakage of saline does not result in a gas embolism, which could occur with the use of boiling refrigerants. Since turbulence in the coolant is enhanced by the shape of the interior surface 38 of the heat transfer element 14, the coolant can be delivered to the heat transfer element 14 at a warmer temperature and still achieve the necessary heat transfer rate.
This has a number of beneficial implications in the need for insulation along the catheter shaft length. Due to the decreased need for insulation, the catheter shaft diameter can be made smaller. The enhanced heat transfer characteristics of the interior surface of the heat transfer element 14 also allow the working fluid to be delivered to the heat transfer element 14 at lower flow rates and lower pressures. High pressures may make the heat transfer element stiff and cause it to push against the wall of the blood vessel, thereby shielding part of the exterior surface 37 of the heat transfer element 14 from the blood. Because of the increased heat transfer characteristics achieved by the alternating helical ridges 28, 32, 36, the pressure of the working fluid may be as low as 5 atmospheres, 3 atmospheres, 2 atmospheres or even less than 1 atmosphere.
Thus, a large portion of the volume of warm blood in the vessel is actively brought in contact with the heat transfer element 14, where it can be cooled by direct contact rather than being cooled largely by conduction through adjacent laminar layers of blood. As noted above, the depth of the grooves 26, 30, 34 (
Referring back to
A working fluid is circulated up through an inner coaxial lumen 56 defined by an insulating coaxial tube 58 to a distal tip of the heat transfer element 50. The working fluid then traverses an outer coaxial lumen 60 in order to transfer heat to the exterior surface 52 of the heat transfer element 50. The inside surface of the heat transfer element 50 is similar to the exterior surface 52, in order to induce turbulent flow of the working fluid. The inner protrusions can be aligned with the outer protrusions 54, as shown in
Although the working fluid supply 10 is shown as an exemplary cooling device, other devices and working fluids may be used. For example, in order to provide cooling, freon, perflourocarbon, water, or saline may be used, as well as other such coolants.
The heat transfer element can absorb or provide over 75 Watts of heat to the blood stream and may absorb or provide as much as 100 Watts, 150 Watts, 170 Watts or more. For example, a heat transfer element with a diameter of 4 mm and a length of approximately 10 cm using ordinary saline solution chilled so that the surface temperature of the heat transfer element is approximately 5° C. and pressurized at 2 atmospheres can absorb about 100 Watts of energy from the bloodstream. Smaller geometry heat transfer elements may be developed for use with smaller organs which provide 60 Watts, 50 Watts, 25 Watts or less of beat transfer.
The practice of the present invention is illustrated in the following non-limiting example.
While the particular invention as herein shown and disclosed in detail is fully capable of obtaining the objects and providing the advantages hereinbefore stated, it is to be understood that this disclosure is merely illustrative of the presently preferred embodiments of the invention and that no limitations are intended other than as described in the appended claims.
This is a divisional patent application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/570,075, filed on May 12, 2000, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,471,717 and entitled “Selective Organ Cooling Apparatus and Method”; which is a continuation patent application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/103,342, tiled on Jun. 23, 1998, and entitled “Selective Organ Cooling Catheter and Method of Using the Same”, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,096,068; which is a CIP of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/047,012, filed on Mar. 24, 1998, and entitled “Selective Organ Hypothermia Method and Apparatus”, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,957,963; which is a CIP of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/052,545, filed on Mar. 31, 1998, and entitled “Circulating Fluid Hypothermia Method and Apparatus”, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,231,595; and U.S. Pat. No. 5,957,963 is a CIP of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/012,287, filed on Jan. 23, 1998, and entitled Selective Organ Hypothermia Method and Apparatus, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,051,019.
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