Temperature management is a significant part of hospital care for all neonatal and paediatric patients. Body temperatures that are outside of the normal limits may be a sign of underlying disease processes or clinical decline and should be attended to right away.
In surgical instances, patients can feel cold due to anaesthetics, which can potentially cause dangerous heart issues. After surgery, they will still be cold, and make them feel uncomfortable. Keeping the patient warm throughout the process will minimise risks of infection as well.
But what if, there was no means to keep oneself warm? Being sick in hospital, lying down is already a painful, mentally stressing thing to go through, let alone having to brave cold temperatures. In surgery, temperatures can drop especially with the use of general anaesthesia, which can lead to hyperthermia.
It is not possible to make the environment of the hospital warm as well. To answer this, hospitals are made cold to combat bacterial growth, especially in operating theatres. You can take a look at this article to find out more.
As such, there have been many ways to help patients keep warm during surgery. Methods such as forced air, which effectively blasts warm air through a cover that surrounds the patient. Numerous studies demonstrate that after surgery, forced air-warmed individuals have a normal body temperature. A study was conducted to display the risks of forced-air warming, which can prove to be harmful, with the increased number of particles which can give way to higher chances of bacterial infection.
Quoted from the study by the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery-Examining the effects of forced-air warming on operating room airflow and surgical site sterility.
“Forced-air warming resulted in a significant mean increase in the temperature (1.1°C vs 0.4°C, p<0.0001) and number of particles (1038.2 vs 224.8, p=0.0087) over the surgical site when compared with [HotDog®] warming, which raises concern as bacteria are known to require particles for transport.”
Such issues can be prevented! Hotdog patient warming system boasts improved patient warming technology, delivering improved patient care. Minimising risks of bacterial infection with air-free warming. Utilising a controller, not much space and costs are required, being a cost-efficient and effective patient warmer.
Hotdog patient warmer released the WC77 temperature management controller, which provides maximum versatility and efficiency to patient temperature management, improving patient care. With the simplified, intuitive features, doctors and nurses will not have an issue using the patient warmer system.
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Comparing to other forms of warming systems, the Hotdog patient warming system offers more reliability, simplicity and gets the job done well.
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Citations:
Cooke, E. (2019). Clinical Guidelines (Nursing) : Temperature management. Retrieved from The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne website: https://www.rch.org.au/rchcpg/hospital_clinical_guideline_index/Temperature_Management/
Grady, D. (1997b, April 16). Surgery’s Chill Can Be Risky. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/16/us/surgery-s-chill-can-be-risky.html
Legg, A.J.; Cannon, T; Hammer, A.J. Do forced air patient-warming devices disrupt unidirectional downward airflow? Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Br. 2012;94-B:244-256.
Why Are Hospitals So Cold All The Time?! E. (n.d.). Retrieved December 5, 2022, from https://econtrolsystems.com/blog/why-are-hospitals-are-so-cold-all-time#:~:text=To%20Prevent%20Bacteria%20Growth,of%20infection%20at%20a%20minimum.
Another study shows the risks of using forced-air patient warming. HotDog Patient Warming. (2018, May 17). Retrieved December 5, 2022, from https://hotdogwarming.com/another-study-shows-the-risks-of-using-forced-air-patient-warming/
Martin, T. (n.d.). Patient Warming | novus med | Air-free System from HotDog. Retrieved December 13, 2022, from Novus Med website: https://novus-med.com/portfolio-items/hot-dog/