Patent ID: 8273114

Claim:
An apparatus having: a plurality of cuffs for application to a human body, each cuff having: a support belt having an adjustable diameter; a pressure inlet and a pressure outlet coupled to a flexible bladder, said bladder formed to have an increased fluidic path length from said inlet to said outlet, said bladder having a first surface for coupling pressure to and in thermal exchange with a human body encircled by said support belt, a second surface opposite said first surface and restrained by said support belt; a chiller having an outlet for pressurized fluid and a fluid return, said chiller outlet coupled to each said cuff pressure inlet, said chiller fluid return coupled to each said cuff pressure outlet; where said chiller provides a fluid pressure sufficient to reduce blood circulation and a fluid temperature sufficient to reduce blood temperature in a human body in need thereof; and where a maximum said pressure is established by measuring a subject human subject systolic blood pressure, and establishing said maximum pressure at less than or equal to 122 percent of said systolic blood pressure.