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Heating capabilities of small fluid warming systems
BACKGROUND: Perioperative temperature management is fundamental to ensure normothermia in patients. Fluid warmers, which have become smaller in size over the past few years, can help to maintain a stable body temperature. Potentially, the reduction of the size may influence the heating performance....
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BioMed Central
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6064623/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30055566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-018-0565-x |
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author | Zoremba, Norbert Bruells, Christian Rossaint, Rolf Breuer, Thomas |
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description | BACKGROUND: Perioperative temperature management is fundamental to ensure normothermia in patients. Fluid warmers, which have become smaller in size over the past few years, can help to maintain a stable body temperature. Potentially, the reduction of the size may influence the heating performance. METHODS: Therefore, we tested the effectiveness of enFlow®, Fluido compact® and Thermosens® fluid warmers by measuring the inlet and outlet temperature for room-tempered and ice-cooled saline at flow rates of 25, 50, 75 and 100 ml/min. RESULTS: At all examined flow rates, the tested heating devices warmed up room-tempered saline effectively. The enFlow® provided the significantly (p < 0.05) highest outlet temperature throughout all tested flow rates in comparison to the other devices. When ice-cooled saline was used, the enFlow® maintained a stable outlet temperature > 38 °C at all tested flow rates. The Fluido compact® ensured this only at flow rates of 25 and 50 ml/min, while the Thermosens® provided these conditions at flow rates of 25, 50 and 75 ml/min. CONCLUSIONS: The heating capability for room-tempered saline was effective in all tested devices, but with ice-cooled saline enFlow® is superior at high flow rates. At low flow rates the heating capabilities of enFlow®, Fluido compact® and Thermosens® are comparable. |
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spelling | pubmed-60646232018-08-01 Heating capabilities of small fluid warming systems Zoremba, Norbert Bruells, Christian Rossaint, Rolf Breuer, Thomas BMC Anesthesiol Research Article BACKGROUND: Perioperative temperature management is fundamental to ensure normothermia in patients. Fluid warmers, which have become smaller in size over the past few years, can help to maintain a stable body temperature. Potentially, the reduction of the size may influence the heating performance. METHODS: Therefore, we tested the effectiveness of enFlow®, Fluido compact® and Thermosens® fluid warmers by measuring the inlet and outlet temperature for room-tempered and ice-cooled saline at flow rates of 25, 50, 75 and 100 ml/min. RESULTS: At all examined flow rates, the tested heating devices warmed up room-tempered saline effectively. The enFlow® provided the significantly (p < 0.05) highest outlet temperature throughout all tested flow rates in comparison to the other devices. When ice-cooled saline was used, the enFlow® maintained a stable outlet temperature > 38 °C at all tested flow rates. The Fluido compact® ensured this only at flow rates of 25 and 50 ml/min, while the Thermosens® provided these conditions at flow rates of 25, 50 and 75 ml/min. CONCLUSIONS: The heating capability for room-tempered saline was effective in all tested devices, but with ice-cooled saline enFlow® is superior at high flow rates. At low flow rates the heating capabilities of enFlow®, Fluido compact® and Thermosens® are comparable. BioMed Central 2018-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6064623/ /pubmed/30055566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-018-0565-x Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Zoremba, Norbert Bruells, Christian Rossaint, Rolf Breuer, Thomas Heating capabilities of small fluid warming systems |
title | Heating capabilities of small fluid warming systems |
title_full | Heating capabilities of small fluid warming systems |
title_fullStr | Heating capabilities of small fluid warming systems |
title_full_unstemmed | Heating capabilities of small fluid warming systems |
title_short | Heating capabilities of small fluid warming systems |
title_sort | heating capabilities of small fluid warming systems |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6064623/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30055566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-018-0565-x |
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