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Performance Evidence
Research was undertaken to evaluate the performance of the Inditherm mattress
and a forced air patient warming device during major abdominal and orthopaedic
surgery. It was concluded that the Inditherm system is able to prevent
significant inadvertent hypothermia during major surgery and has comparable
results with forced-air warming throughout.
The graph of results shows that the Inditherm system gave better performance
in the important first hour of surgery. This research was undertaken with the
Inditherm patient warming mattress set
at the minimum temperature of 37ºC and the air-warming device set at the maximum
of 43ºC. Clearly if Inditherm is used at a higher setting it will give even
better results.
Details of the clinical trial are contained in the paper: Comparison of the
Inditherm Mattress and forced-air patient warming device during major abdominal
and orthopaedic surgery. Baxendale,B., Giovanelli,M. (2000) Dept. of
Anaesthesia, University Hospital, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK.
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