Patent ID: 8522786

Claim:
A brain cooling apparatus, comprising: a tube-shaped member which is orally or nasally inserted so that an airway is maintained in the respiratory tract of living body; a storage portion which is attached to the peripheral part of the tube-shaped member and stores a cooled fluid; an injection and discharge portion which injects and discharges a fluid into and from the storage portion; and a cuff attached to the peripheral part of a front end of the tube-shaped member, wherein the storage portion and the cuff are flexible enough to inflate and deflate when a fluid is injected and discharged, and are such that when a fluid is injected, the cuff is configured to adhere closely to a peripheral part of an opening part of a trachea such that an airway in the respiratory tract of living body is maintained by the tube-shaped member, and the inflated storage portion is configured to adhere closely to the pharyngeal part of the living body; wherein the cuff is configured to inflate by storing a fluid that is injected from the injection and discharge portion; and wherein the storage portion is connected to the cuff so that the storage portion receives a fluid which is injected into the cuff, and extends from the cuff toward the side of the basic-end part of the tube-shaped member, along the axial direction of the tube-shaped member.