
ICY® Intravascular Heat Exchange Catheter (Custom Luer)
Instructions for Use
Model IC-3893A/8700-0782-01
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WARNING: The catheter should be placed via a femoral vein
approach only. Do not allow the catheter to be placed into the
right atrium or right ventricle. Placement in the right atrium
or right ventricle can result in severe patient injury or death.
CAUTION: The custom Luers contained on the ICY Catheter
and SUK may reduce the risk of misconnections but still have
the potential for misconnections with these specific medical
device applications: Breathing Systems & Driving Gases
applications, Enteral & Gastric applications, Urethral &
Urinary applications, Limb Cuff Inflation applications,
Neuraxial applications, and Intravascular or Hypodermic
applications. Always use caution when connecting ZOLL
catheters and SUK’s to these and other medical device
applications.
CAUTION: Ensure that the ICY Catheter and/or Start-Up Kit
are not connected to an IV or other medical devices.
1. The catheter should be positioned so that the distal tip of the
catheter is in the inferior vena cava below its junction with
the right atrium and parallel to the vessel wall. X-ray
examination should be used to ensure that the catheter is not
in the right atrium or ventricle.
2. Cardiac Tamponade: Placement of indwelling catheters in the
right atrium is a practice that may lead to cardiac perforation
and tamponade. Practitioners placing central venous catheters
must be aware of this potentially fatal complication before
advancing the catheter too far relative to patient size. The
actual position of the tip of the indwelling catheter should be
confirmed by x-ray after insertion. Central venous catheters
should not be placed in the right atrium unless specifically
required for special relatively short term procedures, such as
aspiration of air emboli during neurosurgery. Such procedures
are nevertheless risk prone and should be closely monitored
and controlled.
3. Alcohol and acetone can weaken the structure of the shaft
material. Care should therefore be taken when infusing drugs
containing alcohol or when using alcohol or acetone when
performing routine catheter care and maintenance. Alcohol
should not be used to declot the catheter.
4. Use of a syringe smaller than 10 ml to irrigate or declot an
occluded catheter may cause intraluminal leakage or catheter
rupture.
5. Caution: If blood is observed within the saline circuit, stop
the procedure.
6. The catheter is coated with heparin. This may induce or
aggravate pre-existing heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
(HIT).
7. Possible complications with central venous catheters include:
atrial or ventricular perforation, cardiac tamponade, air
embolism, catheter embolism, thoracic duct laceration,
bacteremia, septicemia, thrombosis, inadvertent arterial
puncture, hematoma formation, hemorrhage, nerve damage
and dysrhythmias.
8. All Luer-Lock connections and covers must be securely
tightened to prevent air embolism or fluid or blood loss.
9. Never use excessive force in moving the catheter or
guidewire. If resistance is encountered, an x-ray should be
performed to identify the reason for the resistance.
10. Passage of the guidewire into the right heart can cause
dysrhythmias, right bundle branch block, vessel wall, atrial or
ventricular perforation.
11. Use only sterile normal saline for catheter priming. It is the
circulating fluid in the catheter.
12. The catheter should be routinely inspected for flow rate,
security of dressing, correct catheter position, and secure
Luer-Lock connections. Use the centimeter markings to
identify if the catheter position has changed.
13. Only x-ray examination can ensure that the catheter tip has
not entered the heart or no longer lies parallel to the vessel
wall. If the catheter position has changed, perform an x-ray
examination to confirm the catheter tip position.
14. For blood sampling, temporarily shut off the remaining
infusion ports through which solutions are being infused.
15. Use only a 30 cc or smaller syringe for blood sampling.
16. Use only the ZOLL suture tab and clip provided in the kit to
prevent catheter damage.
17. Do not infuse into the “IN” and “OUT” Luer-Lock
connections.
18. Use care when infusing drugs that may be affected by cool
temperatures (as low as 4ºC). Solutions containing Mannitol
are temperature-sensitive and must not be delivered through
the catheter except for a rapid push of a solution of up to 20%
mannitol, followed by a saline flush. Higher than a 20%
concentration of mannitol or a drip or infusion pump delivery
of mannitol must be done via a separate line.
19. WARNING: When connecting infusion sets/injection
systems to ZOLL Catheters do not exceed
100 psi/689 kPa.
20. For patients being made hypothermic, the hypothermia itself
may exacerbate some disease states. Care should be taken to
properly monitor patient homeostasis during hypothermia.
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Cardiac rhythm disturbances –both bradycardia and
ventricular tachyarrhythmia.
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Clotting and coagulations function. Patients at risk for
disturbances of their clotting or coagulation function
should be closely monitored during hypothermia.
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Blood gas and pH analysis. Hypothermia modifies
resting pH and PaCO2. Physicians should be aware of
the effect of temperature upon the result.
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Prolonged hypothermia depresses the immune response
and lung function.
WARNING: INTRALUMINAL LEAKAGE Intraluminal
leakage between the saline Luer and infusion Luers is an
uncommon but potential catheter failure. In the event of such a
failure, sterile saline from the cooling circuit will be introduced
into the patient. Intraluminal leakage will usually be associated
with a fluid loss alarm which will stop the system. ALWAYS
INVESTIGATE FLUID LEVEL ALARMS. The cooling circuit
is a closed loop system –usually fluid loss alarms indicate a
breach somewhere in this closed loop. With any fluid loss
alarm, check both the integrity of the catheter and the Start-Up
Kit (see below).
To check the integrity of the catheter
1. Stop operation of the Coolgard 3000, Thermogard XP
System.
2. Disconnect the Start-Up Kit from the catheter. Properly cap
both the catheter and Start-Up Kit using an aseptic technique.
3. Fill a sterile 10 ml slip tip syringe with sterile saline.