Warm threesome baths..?

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Well I was just waiting to make sure Wilf was focusing on a urethral cather and

not a naso-gastric tube...just checking on you a bit there Wilf as sometimes

being down under in geographical locations, as in my case

here, can cause circadian dysrythmic disorder and lead to difficult questions

such as, 'why has this patient got a urine collection bag under his nose' ?...

 

.....takes a few days for the old biological clock to adjust if you get my

drift...?

 

However I like your thinking on warming casualties up and am taking notes...is

there a test later..?

 

Cheers and " no-worries " !

 

P.

Date: Sunday, 28 November, 2010, 10:41

 

Austin:

Urinary Cath is well within scope of practice in my hood, no gross factor in the

slightest, was hinting the twisted mind of is all.

Agreed one must considering patient benifet vs risk, but warmed bladder lavage

is a fact not a theory, as is pertineal lavage or gastric lavage (high risk of

aspiration) and in passing gas ... colon irrigation.

The (average) bladder irrigation rewarming rates of 1.5 to 2 degrees C / hr.

temp if irrigation fluid 40 to 42 C.

Wereas and noted before, that Heated Humidified Inhaled O2 is .3 degrees C / hr.

(average) sorry folks RESCU AIR got busted in studies by CAF, not repeatable

findings.

Warmed IV fluids in " theory " 1 liter of fluid @ 42 degrees C " should " warm a 70

kg patient @ 28 degrees C by .33degres C/ hr. (the math I was talking about)

..Best advice from the great white north, the NARP Hypothermia bags, active

external rewarming 1. 2 to 4.4 degrees C per hour and substancially equivwelent

to BAIR Hugger

NARP Hypothermia bags cost ~ 100 USD .

perhaps look back in the archives as this topic has been discussed in detail

back in 2007.

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cheers

Wilf

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