Design of Enhanced Brain Hypothermia System

Abstract

The brain temperature regulation is mainly reliant on brain tissue metabolic activity. In clinical
practice, intensive care, constant managing, and core temperature monitoring in cases with brain injury
are extremely suggested. Following significant brain injury, brain temperature is usually higher than the
normal one and can differ solely of systemic temperature. It has been noted that in brain injury cases, the
brain is very vulnerable and sensitive to little fluctuations in temperature. Brain cooling techniques
include blood cooling, intravascular cooling, and surface cooling. Nevertheless, defining the suitable
temperature is challenging due to notable variations amongst individuals and variations over time in
patients. Therefore, specific brain temperature control is challenging in manual techniques. The main
objectives of this paper are to build an Arduino Based Brain Hypothermia System (ABHS), which is
used to reduce the temperature of the brain after a stroke and, therefore, can decrease brain damage and
risk of death. The proposed system for brain temperature management aims to provide constant control
and monitoring of a patient’s brain temperature for brain injury patients. Negative Temperature
Coefficient (NTC) sensors and Peltier cooling elements as the main parts of the system. The weight of
the helmet that cooling elements attached weight about one kilogram, and the cooling elements are
water-cooled to maintain the best performance of the head cooling system.