Automatic fever abatement applications

Abstract

A method for treating fever by establishing a closed loop pathway to flow a treatment substance through a patient's body without the substance entering the patient's bloodstream, by engaging a fever characteristic sensor with the patient, by receiving a signal from such sensor and using the controller to control temperature and/or flow of the treatment substance.

What is claimed is:  
     
         1 . A method for treating fever comprising: 
 establishing a pathway for fluid communication for a treatment substance to flow in a closed loop through a patient's body without entering the bloodstream;    engaging at least one fever characteristic sensor with the patient;    receiving signals from the sensor at a controller;    using the controller to control at least one of: temperature, and flow, of the treatment substance to counter fever in the patient.    
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the controller counters fever by alleviating fever once the sensor indicates that the patient is febrile.  
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the controller counters fever by prophylactically preventing a febrile episode.