Patent ID: 8172788
Filing Date: 2012-05-08
Classification: A61B,A61F

Abstract:
1. A cooling and humidification assembly to cool and humidify a patient's abdominal cavity while preventing desiccation, comprising: an intra-abdominal cooling system (b) designed to cool a patient's abdominal cavity or abdominal cavity surface to a condition of hypothermia between 23° C. and 35° C., wherein said cooling system (b) is mountable to a cooling conduit (c) designed to transport cooling fluid into the patient's abdominal cavity, an insufflation assembly for administering insufflation gas with a temperature that is 1° C. to 5° C. higher than the temperature in the abdominal cavity, wherein said assembly further comprises a controlling means (a) to regulate the intra-abdominal cooling and humidification, maintaining continuously a 95% to 100% relative humidity in the abdominal cavity of said patient and maintaining a temperature in the insufflation gas which is 1° C. to 5° C. higher than the temperature in the abdominal cavity.