Talk:Arctic Sun medical device

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Notability and Verifiability[edit]

Even the most well known and commonly used brand name medical devices do not have articles on Wikipedia, so I wondered why this one brand of hypothermia blanket had its own article. To insure that this article is not advertising (WP:ADVERTISING), I wanted to establish that the device met the guidelines for notability (WP:Notability) and to make sure the content of the article was verifiable (WP:Verifiablity). I went directly to all of the sources cited in the article, and this is what I found:

  • Polderman, Kees H. “Application of therapeutic hypothermia in the ICU.” Intensive Care Med. (2004) 30:556-575.
    • This article is about therapeutic hypothermia in general. It does not contain any mention of the Arctic Sun medical device.
  • Holzer, Michael. “Mild Hypothermia to Improve the Neurologic Outcome After Cardiac Arrest.” New England Journal of Medicine. (2002) Vol. 346, No. 8.
    • This article reports the results of a research study that used a different device (TheraKool, made by Kinetic Concepts, Wareham, United Kingdom) to induce hypothermia. No mention of the Arctic Sun medical device is made.
  • Medivance
    • The third reference isn't actually a reference. It's simply a link to the manufacturers website.
  • Haugk, Moritz et al. “Feasibility and efficacy of new non-invasive cooling device in post resuscitation intensive care medicine.” Resuscitation (2007 75, 76-81.
    • This article described an observational case series of patients being induced into hypothermia using the Arctic Sun. The device did successfully lower the body temperature of the patients.

The last two references seem to establish notability. However, the article undoubtedly needs a good thorough clean up.

I would have to thoroughly agree that this article is of dubious value and is thinly velied advertising for an an expensive medical product.Urlwiki (talk) 21:08, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Credibility: "Shortly after being disconnected from the ventilator, the woman surprisingly recovered..." doesn't say much in itself. "Surprisingly" pretty much sums it up. It's not known if hypothermia was the reason that she "recovered." And "recovered" could mean opening her eyes or moving her limbs, not necessarily returning to a meaningful life. I'm pessimistic here.

Reimbursement: Anecdotal evidence in one area seems to point to excellent reimbursement rates for initiating a "code chill" using this device. It's too early in the ballgame to see if this product will sustain itself with its value remaining non-contested by insurance companies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.160.200.215 (talk) 11:05, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Claims[edit]

This article reads like the company wrote it.

Statements such as this: "Research has shown, that by reducing body temperature the brain may recover to normal function in approximately 60% of the patients treated" have no citations, nor does it indicate in this case what exactly is being treated (Brain Cancer? Stroke? No details, just that 60% of people go back to normal, from what, it's not clear). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.57.162.11 (talk) 18:57, 29 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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