@article{PATENT,
      recid = {8956},
      title = {Medical ice slurry production device},
      number = {PATENT},
      month = {Jun},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {The present invention relates to an apparatus for  producing sterile ice slurries for medical cooling  applications. The apparatus is capable of producing highly  loaded slurries suitable for delivery to targeted internal  organs of a patient, such as the brain, heart, lungs,  stomach, kidneys, pancreas, and others, through medical  size diameter tubing. The ice slurry production apparatus  includes a slurry production reservoir adapted to contain a  volume of a saline solution. A flexible membrane  crystallization surface is provided within the slurry  production reservoir. The crystallization surface is  chilled to a temperature below a freezing point of the  saline solution within the reservoir such that ice  particles form on the crystallization surface. A deflector  in the form of a reciprocating member is provided for  periodically distorting the crystallization surface and  dislodging the ice particles which form on the  crystallization surface. Using reservoir mixing the slurry  is conditioned for easy pumping directly out of the  production reservoir via medical tubing or delivery through  other means such as squeeze bottles, squeeze bags,  hypodermic syringes, manual hand delivery, and the like.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/8956},
}