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For use in all clinical settings including coronary care units, operating, recovery and emergency departments, burn units,
and medical/surgical units
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Adult and pediatric patients
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Monitoring and controlling patient temperature
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Temperature reduction in patients where clinically indicated, e.g. in hyperthermic patients
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Mild therapeutic hypothermia for post cardiac arrest
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Mild therapeutic hypothermia Neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE)
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Mild therapeutic hypothermia post traumatic brain injury (TBI)
I I n n t t e e n n d d e e d d u u s s e e r r s s
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Physicians
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Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
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Nurses
C C l l i i n n i i c c a a l l b b e e n n e e f f i i t t s s
Regulating patient temperature
C C o o n n t t r r a a i i n n d d i i c c a a t t i i o o n n s s
For core body temperature regulation:
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Raynaud's Phenomenon (primary or secondary)
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Application to lower extremities distal to aortic cross-clamping
For inducing mild hypothermia
Absolute
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Hemorrhagic stroke
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Cardiac arrest due to trauma
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Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) >=eight
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Cardiac arrest due to drug overdose
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Pre-existing hypothermia (<34.0° C; 93.2° F)
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Uncontrolled active bleeding
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Uncontrolled hemodynamically unstable arrhythmias
Relative
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Thrombocytopenia (platelet count <50x109/L) or baseline coagulopathy
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Severe refractory hypotension (mean arterial pressure <60mmHg) not corrected by fluid infusion, vasopressors or
invasive hemodynamic support
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Prolonged cardiac arrest (>60 minutes)
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Pregnancy
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Terminal condition
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Valid Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) directives
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ROSC greater than six hours
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