Top 5 Patient Warming Studies

The Top 5 Patient Warming Studies that you need to know. This video includes a brief description of what makes each one important and can help inform important clinical decisions. Quick Summary: -Forced-air warming is marginally effective (Sun et al), and HotDog Patient Warming is significantly more effective (Sugai et al). -Hypothermic patients are at risk for adverse outcomes including 3.1x higher infection rate (Kurz et al). -A single hypothermic patient increases hospitalization costs by $2,500-7,000 (Mahoney and Odom). -Forced-air systems contaminate the air in the surgical field whereas HotDog does not (Legg and Hamer; Nishida et al). -And finally, eliminating airborne contamination from forced-air warming has been linked to a 74% reduction in peri-prosethetic joint infections (McGovern et al). For a full Research Summary: https://hotdogwarming.com/wp-content/... Thanks for watching! #anesthesiology #medicaldevice #research #hypothermia