Patent ID: 7008445

Claim:
A portable system for inducing hypothermia as a therapeutic agent in a patient in the pre-hospital setting, or in the emergency room of a hospital comprising: (a) a small battery operated console, comprising a fluid reservoir, a thermal battery, an electrical battery, a water pump, an air pump, and control circuitry, and (b) a cooling cap comprising a fluid distribution means for infusing the scalp of said patient with cold fluid, and an aspiration manifold disposed circumferentially about the internal rim of said cooling cap, and (c) an umbilical providing at least two fluid passages between said control console and said cooling cap, whereby said console provides cold fluid to said cooling cap under positive gage pressure by means provided by said water pump, where said cold fluid is scavenged from said aspiration manifold under negative gage pressure by means provided by said air pump, and wherein said system provides a means to cool a second part of said patient's body with a second body-cooling garment.