Hemorrhagic Stroke

Study Using Endovascular Cooling Catheter For Fever Control Is Initiated

Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, September 9th, 2001

INNERCOOL Therapies, Inc. announced it is initiating a clinical study to investigate the use of its Celsius Control^TM System in patients who develop a fever after suffering a ruptured brain aneurysm (hemorrhagic stroke).

The Celsius Control System is a state-of-the-art endovascular catheter technology that exchanges heat directly with blood flowing in the vessels of the body to induce and/or reverse hypothermia. Hypothermia has the potential to prevent tissue or organ damage during periods of ischemia that occur during stroke and heart attack or for temperature control in surgical and critical care applications.

The study will be...

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