Patient Warming System for Optimizing Outcomes
The Complete Temperature Management and Return Electrode Package
Air-Free
HotDog utilizes a unique conductive fabric called ThermAssure® which emits no waste heat. Forced-air warming systems contaminate the air of the sterile field when their waste heat carries foreign particles to the surgical site.
Better Warming
Warm from above and below the patient at the same time. HotDog is the only technology with both blankets and mattresses. This gives it tremendous versatility and effectiveness for many procedures.
Cost Effective
Implement HotDog with no up-front costs and immediate cost savings. Decrease your cost of care. Normothermic patients have better outcomes which lead to shorter hospital stays and faster operating room turnover rates.
Return Electrode
HotDog U5XX Warming Mattresses + Return Electrode combine electrosurgical grounding and underbody warming into a two-in-one device. This “game-changing solution” causes procedures to be set up in less time, with better outcomes, for less cost.
What are Customers Saying?
Surgery Center, Alaska
North Carolina
System, our patients arrive in PACU normothermic, they emerge from anesthesia faster and in less discomfort, and are ready for discharge sooner.”
Los Angeles, California
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What is HotDog?
HotDog Patient Warming is an air-free, water-free, perioperative temperature management system with return electrode capabilities. A central temperature management controller sends low-voltage current to up to 5 warming devices.
Efficient warming is then delivered by a flexible, lightweight conductive polymer fabric inside of HotDog blankets and mattresses. This fabric performs resistive warming, which is much safer than other warming systems while also acting as a return electrode.
HotDog is the only patient warming system that warms the patient from above and below simultaneously. This results in a uniquely versatile, less expensive, and more effective warming solution before, during, and after surgery.
Why Should You Use Air-Free Patient Warming and Grounding?
OR Today: Augustine Surgical Combines Patient Warming with Electrosurgical Grounding
“Augustine Surgical’s entire HotDog Warming Mattress is now also a return electrode, a required component in electrosurgery that is performed in roughly 4 out of 5 surgeries…Reusable capacitive return electrodes have been used for 20-plus years in more than 100 million procedures, however, this is the first time this function has been combined with active patient warming.” Read more about warming and grounding
Outpatient Surgery: Managing the Risks of Waste Heat in the OR
“Recent research has revealed that even if smoke evacuation is utilized, surgeons, anesthetists and the entire OR staff are still at risk of inhaling the viruses and carcinogens contained in surgical smoke. Why is this the case? The culprit is rising waste heat from commonly used hot-air patient-warming devices.” Read more about waste heat
Outpatient Surgery: Hypothermia is a Concern in Robotic Surgeries
“The relationship between robotic surgery and inadvertent perioperative hypothermia is the subject of increased investigation. Minimally invasive robotic surgeries were assumed to provide less risk of losing normothermia than traditional open surgeries, but that assumption has been called into question.” Read more about hypothermia in robotics
AORN Journal: Implementation of Resistive Warmers for Total Joint Arthroplasty Procedures
“During Surgery, active patient warming is important because of the potential for the patient to lose heat. There are multiple actors that can affect a patient’s core body temperature during surgery. Conduction heat loss occurs when heat is transferred through physical contact with an object, such as a cold operating table.” Read more about resistive warmers