Cardium's InnerCool Therapies Unit Announces European Commercialization Agreement for Portfolio of Temperature Modulati...(one of severalimportant therapies to hel...)

Date:4/1/2008

one of several important therapies to help manage patients who experience fevers in association with severe neurologic injuries or other medical conditions. The ASA and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), as well as other organizations internationally, now recommend proactive fever reduction following neurological injury. The company estimates that more than 450,000 hospital patients in the U.S. experience neurologic or non-neurologic fever conditions that either require or could benefit from proactive therapies to reduce patients' body temperatures. Fever patients typically require treatment for multiple days, sometimes as long as a week.

About InnerCool

InnerCool Therapies, Inc., a subsidiary of Cardium Therapeutics, Inc., is a San Diego-based medical technology company in the emerging field of patient temperature modulation, which is designed to rapidly and controllably cool the body in order to reduce cell death and damage following acute ischemic events such as cardiac arrest or stroke, and to potentially lessen or prevent associated injuries such as adverse neurological outcomes. For more information about InnerCool and patient temperature modulation, please visit http://www.innercool.com.

InnerCool's CoolBlue surface temperature modulation system, which includes a console and a disposable CoolBlue(TM) vest with upper thigh pads, is designed to provide a complementary tool for use in less acute patients or in clinical settings best suited to prolonged temperature management. InnerCool's CoolBlue vest and thigh pads wrap the body without requiring any adhesives to stick to the skin and produce cooling rates of around 1 degree C per hour, i.e. similar to those of currently-marketed surface cooling systems and endovascular systems using inflatable balloon-based catheters. InnerCool's CoolBlue external or surface-based temperature modulation system is designed to cool o
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