DocumentCode
307670
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
Volume
1
fYear
1995
fDate
20-25 Sep 1995
Firstpage
695
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1995., IEEE 17th Annual Conference
Conference_Location
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN
0-7803-2475-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IEMBS.1995.575317
Filename
575317
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