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Patient Warming

Study Confirms Safety of Forced-Air Warming

The use of forced-air warming to maintain patient normothermia and help prevent surgical site infections (SSIs) and other complications does not disturb laminar air flow in operating rooms or compromise the protection of the surgical site, a newly published study has ...More
November 15, 2011
Posted in News
Forced-Air Warming: An Effective Tool in Fighting SSI

Infection prevention and control departments have responsibility and oversight for implementing and monitoring strategies that help reduce infection risk throughout healthcare facilities. Infection preventionists are often asked to weigh in on strategies that are unfamiliar ...More
March 16, 2011
Posted in Articles
Hospital Gown Helps Meet Government Initiative

Each year, approximately 34 million Americans undergo surgery. Millions undoubtedly associate being cold as part of their surgical experience. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) says that’s not okay, but for important reasons beyond patient comfort. ...More
November 23, 2010
Posted in News
Ecolab to Acquire O.R. Solutions

Ecolab Inc. announces it has agreed to purchase the assets of O.R. Solutions, Inc., a privately held company based in Chantilly, Va. O.R. Solutions is a developer and marketer of surgical fluid warming and cooling systems in the United States. O.R. Solutions' systems are ...More
November 15, 2010
Posted in News
New Normothermia Research Results in Familiar Findings

Patient warming methods seem to come and go, but in the process of trying to prove their worth, they inevitably compare themselves to forced-air warming—a technology found in more than 80 percent of U.S. hospitals and long considered to be the industry’s gold standard. ...More
October 18, 2010
Posted in News
The Essentials of Maintaining Patient Normothermia

Maintaining patient normothermia pre-, peri- and post-operatively is a critical element of preventing surgical site infections and other complications such as metabolic acidosis, cardiovascular effects, increased respiratory distress and surgical bleeding. According to the ...More
February 22, 2010
Posted in Articles