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NICE (The National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence), the UK organisation that provides national guidance on healthcare, has recently published guidelines on the prevention of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia.
The guideline includes recommendations that the NHS should more than double the number of patients warmed, in response to estimates that currently up to 70% of surgical patients become hypothermic. Perioperative hypothermia can lead to significantly increased risk of infections, higher blood loss and transfusion rates and an increase in adverse clinical events.
If the guidelines on the number of patients warmed are adopted using traditional patient warming methods this will add a significant extra burden to hospital budgets. However, Inditherm technology can allow all patients to be warmed at the same running cost as a light-bulb and at the same time deliver cost savings of as much as 80%.
Commenting on the Guideline, Inditherm Medical’s Product Manager, Tim Newton, said: “We already have over 50 NHS hospitals using Inditherm patient warming systems and we anticipate that the NICE Guideline will stimulate further interest in our technology. This has given us further opportunity to promote the clinical and cost benefits that Inditherm can deliver”
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