LRS ThermoSuit - Safe and Rapid Patient Cooling System
The ThermoSuit cools your patient with direct water on skin contact. The water flows over the patient and is returned to the pump. A continuous flow of water is cycled through – drawing heat off the body in a much more rapid process than either gel pads or cooling blankets – a treatment period of about 30 minutes is usually sufficient to cause a body core temperature reduction of 3 degrees C. The suit is portable and is used on a conventional gurney. As your patient reaches the target temperature the water is drawn off the patient and the ThermoSuit® is rolled up and discarded. Your patient will stay cool for hours after removal from the ThermoSuit.
The High-Technology Design of the ThermoSuit® Lower Fluid Delivery System Incorporates:
- Head positioning indicator
- Porous lining for uniform fluid distribution
- Velcro sealing for easy routing of patient lines in and out
- Expandable gussets to accommodate a wide variety of patients
Recently published clinical studies highlight the cooling speed advantages of the ThermoSuit System. A multicenter study published in Resuscitation 2010 [1] studied the effects of cooling patients with either cooling blankets or adhesive gel pads. A second multicenter study used the ThermoSuit System to cool a similar population of patients.
The results of these studies showed a marked advantage in the cooling speed achievable using the ThermoSuit System. The target temperature of 34°C could typically be achieved with the ThermoSuit with a treatment of 37 minutes. Even faster cooling with the ThermoSuit (median cooling time of 27 minutes) could be achieved with the use of propofol as a sedative during the cooling process. In comparison, the gel pads and cooling blankets typically required three to four hours to cool to target.
The gel pad approach enabled the target temperature to be reached within four hours of the start of cooling in only 71% of the patients, and with the cooling blankets only 50% of patients reached the target temperature within four hours. In comparison, the ThermoSuit was 100% successful in achieving the target temperature within 4 hours (the slowest cooling time with the ThermoSuit was only 81 minutes).
The ThermoSuit System is the clear system of choice when rapid, powerful cooling is required.