US 11,701,477 B2
Heating and cooling system for intravenous fluids
Austen P. Metsack, Ashford, CT (US); Joseph W. Wetzel, Oakdale, NY (US); and Jingru Z. Benner, Springfield, MA (US)
Assigned to WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY, Springfield, MA (US)
Filed by Western New England University, Springfield, MA (US)
Filed on Aug. 6, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/986,392.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/883,315, filed on Aug. 6, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0038832 A1, Feb. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 5/44 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 5/445 (2013.01) [A61M 2205/3368 (2013.01); A61M 2205/366 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3606 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An intravenous fluid conditioning system, comprising:
a housing having a first chamber and a second chamber;
a volume of heat transfer medium disposed in the first chamber and the second chamber;
a first intravenous fluid line extending through the first chamber;
a second intravenous fluid line extending through the second chamber; and
one or more thermoelectric devices disposed in the housing, such that a first side of each of the one or more thermoelectric devices is in thermal communication with the first chamber and a second side of each of the one or more thermoelectric devices opposite the first side is in thermal communication with the second chamber;
wherein the one or more thermoelectric devices exchange thermal energy with a volume of intravenous fluid selectably flowed through the first intravenous fluid line or the second intravenous fluid line to condition the intravenous fluid.