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The Waffle Grip Positioning
System from Augustine borrows
from the same idea that keeps
your rugs from sliding to help
keep patients in place when
they're in the Trendelenburg posi-
tion. It wraps around the table and
over a warming pad to help keep
patients both safe and comfort-
able. There's also a draw sheet
designed specifically to tuck arms
in, which is a pretty cool idea.
3M's Bair Hugger
Temperature
Monitoring
System, which
attaches to the
patient's forehead,
is much more con-
venient than an
esophageal probe
for monitoring
patient core temperature during long procedures. It's also a lot
more consistent and useful than the small strip a lot of outpa-
tient centers use, since it displays average temperature over 5-
minute periods. My only concern is that it's another monitor and
another wire in an already-crowded OR.
— Gregory Hickman, MD
