Title :
Evaluation of the delivered temperature of prewarmed irrigation saline
Author :
Campbell, Earl A D ; Magi, Enzio ; Malkinson, Terrance J.
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Med., Calgary Univ., Alta., Canada
Abstract :
Maintaining normothermia at the site of microvascular surgery is one of many factors which will affect the success of the operative procedures. The authors have evaluated the ability of the Hotline (R) fluid warmer to provide warmed saline irrigation to the microvascular surgical field. It was found that the instrument was capable of performing this task
Keywords :
biomedical equipment; biothermics; surgery; Hotline fluid warmer; biomedical instrumentation; delivered temperature evaluation; microvascular surgery; normothermia maintenance; operative procedures success; prewarmed irrigation saline; Catheters; Displays; Heat pumps; Instruments; Irrigation; Probes; Surgery; Temperature dependence; Temperature measurement; Water heating;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1995., IEEE 17th Annual Conference
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2475-7
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1995.575317
