Preventing inadvertent perioperative hypothermia helps to reduce surgical site infections, the length of hospital stays and the costs per patient. The complete TSC-PTM portfolio helps healthcare professionals to prevent inadvertent perioperative hypothermia and improve patient outcome.
Hypothermia is a decrease in core temperature (36.5- 37.5°C under normal circumstances) because of exposure to cold.
“Unwarmed anaesthetised patients become hypothermic, typically by 1–2°C. Even mild hypothermia causes various complications.” (Prof D I Sessler MD. Perioperative thermoregulation and heat balance)
These complications may lead to a mostly unwanted longer stay of the patient in the hospital, with higher costs for the hospital as a result. The Surgical Company PTM, provides solutions to keep patients normothermic during surgery.
“Although few patients are faced with all potential complications, most are vulnerable to at least some.” (Prof D I Sessler MD. Perioperative thermoregulation and heat balance)
Preventing inadvertent perioperative hypothermia helps to reduce surgical site infections, the length of hospital stays and the costs per patient.
TSC-PTM offers a full portfolio of solutions for Patient Temperature Management:
The Surgical Company PTM supports you with a practical guide on how to prevent and treat hypothermia. This booklet is intended for health care professionals involved in preventing or treating hypothermia. The second edition of the booklet has a full chapter on pre-warming.
Patient Temperature Management Tool, Virtual37®.
Business partners who actively use Virtual37 achieve great results. Virtual37® is easy to use and always up to date, and can also be used without an internet connection, which is often more convenient in hospitals!
We have created a flow chart showing PTM guidelines during the entire perioperative pathway. The PTM Guide and key factors are based on the international guidelines of S3 (Germany), NICE (UK) and ASPAN (USA), and have been created together with feedback from our Business Partners.
