Cold and shivering patients are more than just uncomfortable. During the last two decades attention has focused on the dangers and costs of hypothermia, core body temperature of less than 36 °C (96.8 °F).
Simple mobile solution for maintaining Normothermia
The small and unobtrusive disposable cartridge can connect into your current IV set. Your patients can be pre-warmed before entering the operating room.
The cartridge can then move with the patient to the operating room where it may be placed into another warmer. It can also go with the patient when moved to the PACU and again fluid warming can continue.
Increased potential for post-operative infections.
Even mild hypothermia reduces resistance to surgical-wound infection by directly impairing immune function (especially oxidative killing by neutrophils) and decreasing the cutaneous blood flow, which reduces the delivery of oxygen to tissue.
Reduce the need for blood transfusions
Patients in whom normothermia was maintained during surgery required 86% fewer units of red blood cells, 79% fewer units of plasma and 78% fewer units of platelets than patients in the hypothermic group.
Reduced length of stay
Hypothermic patients required approximately 40 min longer (94 ± 65 vs. 53 ± 36 min) to reach fitness for discharge, even when return to normothermia was not a criterion (P < 0.001). Duration of recovery in the two groups differed by approximately 90 min when a core temperature > 36 °C was also required (P < 0.001).
Reduced hospital cost
Meta-analytic results allowed us to conclude that hypothermia averaging only 1.5 °C less than normal resulted in cumulative adverse outcomes adding between $2,500 and $7,000 per surgical patient to hospitalization costs across a variety of surgical procedures.
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