What determines the efficacy of forced-air warming systems? A manikin evaluation with upper body blankets

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 192-198

  Bräuer, Anselm ^a   Bovenschulte, Henning ^b   Perl, Thorsten ^a   Zink, Wolfgang ^a   English, Michael John Murray ^c   Quintel, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; DEVICE; FORCE TRANSDUCER; FORCED AIR WARMING SYTEM; HEAT EXCHANGE; HEAT TRANSFER; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; LABORATORY APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AIR; BED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HEATING; INSTRUMENTATION; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS; WARMING;

AIR; BEDDING AND LINENS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEATING; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; MANIKINS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REWARMING; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 58749096919     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31818e0cee     Document Type: Article

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