Abstract
Surgical patients can become significantly hypothermic after induction of an anesthetic, exacerbated by the operating room environment, resulting in post operative wound infections and other morbidities. During many surgical operations treatment of intra-operative hypothermia is often confounded by lack of suitable patient surface area to warm. A new radiant warming device (SunTouchTM) was compared to a common convective air warmer (BairHuggerTM) in two very similar operations. The radiant device was shown to reverse intra-operative hypothermia by heating only the facial area of a patient undergoing reconstructive surgery. This new radiant warmer would appear to offer anesthetists an alternative method for intra-operative warming.
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