face it, outpatient centers and hospitals almost never keep fluids
warmed more than 3 days), it's easier and more convenient to use a
warming cabinet.
Speed matters
Rapid warming time is another very important consideration. In any
busy facility, you're bound to occasionally have days when you realize
at 7 a.m. that you don't have enough IV fluids, or fluids for arthroscop-
ic or infusion procedures. Fortunately, newer cabinets offer rapid
warming times with uniform heating, so depending on the size of the
load, when you suddenly realize you may be in danger of coming up
short, you can still have the warm fluids you need by 9 a.m. (Larger
loads may still take up to 6 hours or so to be adequately warmed.)
With older cabinets,
you had to check the
temperature readings
once a week and enter
those numbers in a log
for the next time the
surveyor came around.
And of course no one
knew for sure when
those temperatures
were really being
recorded. Some newer
cabinets can store tem-
perature data for at
least 2 years, in com-
pliance with CMS reg-
ulations. Just press a
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