O
f all the questions surrounding patient warming,
the most burning is this: Do forced-air warmers
circu-
late
con-
taminants that can cause
wound infections, as a
spate of recent lawsuits
alleges? Read on as we
tackle this and other hot
topics
surrounding your quest
to maintain normother-
mia.
1. Does forced-
air warming
cause SSIs?
Of the many proven ben-
efits of maintaining nor-
mothermia, perhaps the
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4 Burning Questions About
Patient Warming
A skirmish over the science of warming is
heating up. Dan O'Connor | Editor-in-Chief
z WINDSWEPT CONTAMINANTS
What if the waste heat from forced-
air warming spreads airborne con-
taminants and causes infection?