Infusion Fluid and Blood Warmer – enFlow

The enFlow™ flu­id and blood warm­ing sys­tem is designed to help main­tain prop­er body tem­per­a­ture in patients. Main­tain­ing nor­mal body tem­per­a­ture in patients with impaired ther­moreg­u­la­tion under­go­ing sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dures presents sig­nif­i­cant chal­lenges in every­day med­ical prac­tice. Accord­ing to esti­mates, between 50–90% of mil­lions of patients world­wide expe­ri­ence hypother­mia (Young V., Wat­son M., Pre­ven­tion of peri­op­er­a­tive hypother­mia in plas­tic surgery, Aes­thet­ic Surgery Jour­nal, Sep­tem­ber-Octo­ber 2006).

Hypother­mia is defined as a core body tem­per­a­ture drop below 36˚ Cel­sius. Even a slight decrease in core body tem­per­a­ture can sig­nif­i­cant­ly and adverse­ly affect post­op­er­a­tive out­comes, patient sat­is­fac­tion, and the recov­ery process after anes­the­sia. This issue, along with the asso­ci­at­ed addi­tion­al finan­cial bur­dens, prompts more hos­pi­tals to active­ly pre­vent hypother­mia in clin­i­cal set­tings and pre­hos­pi­tal care. 

Intra­venous admin­is­tra­tion of cold flu­ids is one of the fac­tors con­tribut­ing to unin­tend­ed hypother­mia. One study found that admin­is­ter­ing one liter of room-tem­per­a­ture flu­id via IV to an adult patient low­ers the aver­age body tem­per­a­ture by approx­i­mate­ly 0.25°C (Sessler, D. Mild peri­op­er­a­tive hypother­mia. New Eng­land Jour­nal of Med­i­cine, June 1997, 336(24):1730–1737). Fur­ther analy­sis con­duct­ed in 2010 also indi­cat­ed that warm flu­id infu­sion effec­tive­ly keeps patients close to nor­moth­er­mia and pre­vents post-anes­the­sia shiv­er­ing.

The enFlow sys­tem for warm­ing flu­ids and blood can be used in pre­op­er­a­tive care, emer­gency depart­ments, dur­ing intra­hos­pi­tal trans­port, in surgery, in recov­ery rooms, and in ICUs.

Skamex offers enFlow con­trollers, warm­ers, and dis­pos­able car­tridges, as well as addi­tion­al enFlow prod­ucts to facil­i­tate trans­port and secure the warmer. Read the arti­cle: „Unin­ten­tion­al peri­op­er­a­tive hypother­mia as a risk fac­tor for var­i­ous com­pli­ca­tions — includ­ing infec­tions