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Overview Hypothermia is associated with increased surgical complications and morbidity, prolonged recovery from anesthesia and longer hospital stays. Conventional methods of warming, which predominantly use forced air or warmed cotton blankets, are slow and may be ineffective. While the body is hypothermic, it is the vital organs that need to be warmed. Now, there’s a way to provide effective core temperature control in the surgical environment that uses less than 5% of the body surface area. The vitalHEAT™ vH2™ Temperature Management System uses a unique technology to noninvasively warm the core organs of hypothermic patients. By applying low vacuum and heat to the patient’s extremity (hand and forearm), the vitalHEAT vH2 system opens AVAs — thermo-regulatory structures in the palm and fingers — to conductively warm blood in the extremity which is then delivered directly to the body’s core by the patient’s own circulation. Convenient to apply and simple to operate, the vitalHEAT vH2 Temperature Management System warms your patient, covers only a small surface area rather than the whole body, and minimizes interference with surgical draping of the operative site.  |
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