TY - JOUR
AU - Harban, Fraser
AB -  S ir —The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has issued guidelines encouraging the use of forced‐air warming devices in the perioperative period to maintain normothermia ( 1 ). There have previously been reports of thermal injuries to patients following the misuse of such devices (such as the blowing of warmed air directly onto the patient’s skin ( 2,3 )) and in patients who are at high risk of thermal injury (such as patients on cardio‐pulmonary bypass ( 4 )). However, there are no reports of injury to patients with normal peripheral perfusion. We would like to present two, physically well, children who suffered superficial burns from the appropriate use of an underbody forced‐air warming blanket. Patient 1 was a 5‐month‐old boy, weighing 7.1 kg. He underwent a biopsy of a spinal tumor in the prone position and insertion of a tunneled central line in the supine position with a gel ring under his shoulders. Total surgery time was 1 h and 50 min. He was positioned on a pediatric underbody forced‐air warming blanket (Bair Hugger™, Bair Hugger Augustine Medical Inc., Eden Prairie, MN, USA, model 550), with a 3M™ Bair Hugger™ model 505 warming unit, which 
TI - Thermal injuries from the use of a forced‐air warming device
JO - Pediatric Anesthesia
DO - 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2012.03804.x
DA - 2012-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/thermal-injuries-from-the-use-of-a-forced-air-warming-device-7nVkQmIcXh
SP - 414
VL - 22
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -