Figure 2.

Maintaining target temperature. The ability of the cooling device to maintain a stable target temperature is depicted as the percentage of time the patient's temperature was 0.2°C below or above the target temperature. Bars represent mean values ± standard deviation. Asterisks indicate significant differences. Conventional, conventional cooling with ice cold fluids and ice/coldpacks; BR, water-circulating cooling system; CC, air-circulating cooling system; AS, gel-coated cooling system; CG, intravascular cooling system.