| abstract |
The invention relates to a device for use in the heat-therapeutic treatment of a selected area of the body of a human or an animal, in particular for use in the treatment of tissue damage after surgical interventions, injuries, inflammation and chronic diseases of the rheumatic type, and in particular for Support of chemotherapeutic treatments, with a temperature control device (1), which is intended to temperature control a temperature control fluid, with a heat transfer device (2), which is designed to transfer heat to the selected area of the body, the temperature control device (1) with the heat transfer device, is fluidically connected, and is further set up to control the temperature of the heat transfer device (2) with a heat-transferring tempering fluid flowing through the heat transfer device (2), and with a control device (3) which is connected to d he temperature control device (1) and the heat transfer device (2), wherein the control device (3) is set up to control the temperature control device (1) and to cause the heat transfer device (2) in the region of a contact surface between the heat transfer device (2), and the selected area of the body to be tempered at least partially has an approximately uniform temperature. The invention also relates to a method for operating this device. |