LOUISVILLE, Colo., May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Critical care nurses from across the US will be introducing a novel way of inducing hypothermia with the new Arctic Sun 2000 Temperature Management System at the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) National Teaching Institute, May 15-20, 2004 in Orlando.
A growing body of research demonstrates that mild hypothermia could potentially improve the recovery and quality of life for patients who have suffered cardiac arrest, stroke, and other traumatic disorders.
Medivance, Inc., a leader in the emerging field of non-invasive therapeutic temperature management, is exhibiting its Arctic Sun 2000 Temperature Management System at AACN. Arctic Sun 2000 has received 510 (k) FDA clearance and is the first non-invasive, sophisticated patient cooling system that quickly and easily controls, monitors, and precisely maintains core body temperature in a therapeutic range, between 33 and 37 degrees Celsius (approximately 91.4 and 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
Mild Hypothermia Heating Up as a Mainstream Treatment Option
“We have been using the Arctic Sun for about a year now with great success,” said Shiela Ford, RN, BSN, Senior Research Nurse, University of Texas Medical School at Houston’s Stroke Program. “We have two systems -- one in our unit and one in the Emergency Department, where our protocol stipulates that cooling begin immediately. The Arctic Sun is portable and user friendly and we’ve seen evidence that cooling stroke victims may be neuroprotective.”
Mild hypothermia therapy has also received a major endorsement for use in cardiac arrest. Last July, the American Heart Association’s Advanced Life Support Task Force of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation noted: “There seems to be good evidence to recommend the use of induced mild hypothermia in comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest caused by ventricular fibrillation.”
Hypothermia educational sessions
Ms. Ford, along with Jody Wellwood, MSN, ACNP, CNRN, Nurse Practitioner, Neurotrauma at the Detroit Receiving Hospital in Michigan, and Cecilia Ma, RN, MA, MBA, CNA, CCRN, Nurse Manager, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia in New York City, will present a series of educational sessions at the Medivance booth from May 18 through May 20. The for-credit sessions will focus on the development and implementation of hypothermia protocols.
About Medivance
Medivance, Inc. is a medical products company based in Louisville, Colorado that develops and manufactures non-invasive, proprietary therapeutic temperature management solutions. It provides clinicians with safe, easy, and precise methods to control and regulate body temperature. Established in hospitals across North America, Medivance’s solutions have applications in complex surgical procedures and intensive care settings, as well as potentially in the care of patients who have suffered cardiac arrest, heart attacks, or strokes.
For more information, visit http://www.medivance.com/.
Medivance, Inc.
CONTACT: Edna Kaplan of Medivance, Inc., +1-781-639-1910 or+1-617-974-8659, kaplan@kogspr.com
Web site: http://www.medivance.com/
