I was wondering what everone is using for a heat source for patients under anesthesia and your ill patients. I love the Bair Hugger for those sleeping patients but it has it’s draw backs on some of our ill patients. The size doesn’t make it easy to move around, we only have one, and the blanket soil easily. Heating pads are out of the queston for the obvious reason, same as the heating disks. Heat lamps and hot water bottles have draw backs as well. I heard about a product called the VacuPad, you pump it up and it forms around the patients body.
I was wondering what everone is using for a heat source for patients under anesthesia and your ill patients. I love the Bair Hugger for those sleeping patients but it has it’s draw backs on some of our ill patients. The size doesn’t make it easy to move around, we only have one, and the blanket soil easily. Heating pads are out of the queston for the obvious reason, same as the heating disks. Heat lamps and hot water bottles have draw backs as well. I heard about a product called the VacuPad, you pump it up and it forms around the patients body. Any one use this product? I’d love to hear your thoughts!
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We use a warm water
We use a warm water circulating pad, which is great but we went through a ton of them initially due to the techs (myself included) inadvertently stabbing them after placing our I.V. catheters. Ooops! And no cheap replacement for pads and impossible to patch. Now we use them solely for surgery or dental patients, otherwise we use fluid warmers which are nice, they have an auto shut-off feature. We have addressed this issue before, but I don’t think a perfect scenario has been reached yet. Heat is tougher than than it seems!
We use a warm water
We use a warm water circulating pad, which is great but we went through a ton of them initially due to the techs (myself included) inadvertently stabbing them after placing our I.V. catheters. Ooops! And no cheap replacement for pads and impossible to patch. Now we use them solely for surgery or dental patients, otherwise we use fluid warmers which are nice, they have an auto shut-off feature. We have addressed this issue before, but I don’t think a perfect scenario has been reached yet. Heat is tougher than than it seems!
We use something called a
We use something called a “hot dog warmer” which maintains a nice even temp, easy to clean, safe, easy to use, supposedly has been proven to keep patients warmer than other systems. Here is the website http://www.vetwarming.com
We use something called a
We use something called a “hot dog warmer” which maintains a nice even temp, easy to clean, safe, easy to use, supposedly has been proven to keep patients warmer than other systems. Here is the website http://www.vetwarming.com
Thank you ladies for your
Thank you ladies for your input, I’ll be checking out the “hot dog warmer” today.
Thank you ladies for your
Thank you ladies for your input, I’ll be checking out the “hot dog warmer” today.