title: Evaluation of advanced cooling therapy's esophageal cooling device for core temperature control.
abstract: Managing core temperature is critical to patient outcomes in a wide range of clinical scenarios. Previous devices designed to perform temperature management required a trade-off between invasiveness and temperature modulation efficiency. The Esophageal Cooling Device, made by Advanced Cooling Therapy (Chicago, IL), was developed to optimize warming and cooling efficiency through an easy and low risk procedure that leverages heat transfer through convection and conduction. Clinical data from cardiac arrest, fever, and critical burn patients indicate that the Esophageal Cooling Device performs very well both in terms of temperature modulation (cooling rates of approximately 1.3°C/hour, warming of up to 0.5°C/hour) and maintaining temperature stability (variation around goal temperature ± 0.3°C). Physicians have reported that device performance is comparable to the performance of intravascular temperature management techniques and superior to the performance of surface devices, while avoiding the downsides associated with both.
authors.affiliation: a School of Public Health , University of Illinois at Chicago , Chicago , IL , USA.
authors.forename: Melissa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Naiman
authors.affiliation: b Advanced Cooling Therapy, Inc ., Chicago , IL , USA.
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Shanley
authors.affiliation: c Garrett Technologies, Inc ., Northbrook , IL , USA.
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Garrett
authors.affiliation: d Department of Emergency Medicine, Advocate Christ Medical Center , University of Illinois , Chicago, Oak Lawn , IL , USA.
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kulstad
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001833:Body Temperature Regulation / Q000502:physiology*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004947:Esophagus / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007036:Hypothermia, Induced / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011358:Product Surveillance, Postmarketing; D034421:Sus scrofa
keywords: Targeted temperature management; fever control; mild therapeutic hypothermia; operative normothermia