Full Length Mattress

High Performance

The patented technology ensures best possible heat transfer to the patient, giving unrivalled performance in maintaining patient core temperature.

Practical & Convenient

The Inditherm Operating Room mattresses allow the surgical and anaesthetic teams full access to the patient, whilst maintaining excellent performance. No fitting and adjustment of disposable blankets is necessary. The uniform heat transfer characteristics ensure the patient is warmed without affecting the surrounding environment and surgical team. The products come in a range of sizes, can be customised for special needs, and are X-Ray translucent.

Clinically Proven

Inditherm mattresses have been clinically proven to provide equivalent or better warming performance than traditional warm air systems (Baxendale, et al, 2000) . The ever-increasing number of users can attest to the products' efficacy in the routine clinical setting.

Cost Saving

Inditherm's range of Operating Room patient warming products provide a very cost effective solution, preventing hypothermia and associated complications during and after surgery. The products are re-usable and require no consumables. Inditherm typically will save at least 80% of forced air warming costs. Intangible savings such as reduced incidence of post-operative infection, lower usage of blood products, prevention of pressure sores, etc will typically give pay-back on one or two patients.

Simple To Use

Inditherm's patient warming systems are easy to use and provide a high level of patient care. The control unit offers user-selectable temperature with reliable, intelligent alarms. The unit is compact and can be mounted on an IV pole or anaesthetic trolley.

Safe & Reliable

All patient warming products - mattresses and blankets - are powered at low voltage (24V), ensuring that patient and operator safety is maintained at all times. Surfaces are anti-static, latex-free polyurethane with fully RF welded seams, allowing simple cleaning and avoiding any risk of damage or infection.

Pressure Relief

The unique design fully integrates high performance viscoelastic foam into the mattresses, providing excellent pressure relief . There is therefore no requirement for cumbersome and inconvenient gel pads. This added benefit has been proven to out-perform traditional gel pads 

( see Comparison: Pressure Relief ) and standard operating table mattresses.
Paper: Baker, E.A, & Leaper, D.J., 2003 - Pressure Relief

Fully Compliant

Inditherm products have been proven in a wide range of demanding Operating Room environments. They have been shown to be fully compatible with all other electronic medical devices.

Our mattresses and blankets can be customised to meet your needs. This includes special sizes, strap lengths and locations, shapes etc.

Please contact us to discuss any requirements.

 

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Inditherm

Inditherm plc has established itself as a cost-effective provider of innovative solutions to difficult heating problems using its unique, carbon-based polymer technology. Based near Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England, Inditherm develops and manufactures heating solutions for markets as diverse as confectionary and food processing, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, oil & gas, medical, utilities, construction and sport. The company was floated on the London Stock Exchange (AIM) in 2001.

Website: www.inditherm.com

 

Inditherm's patient warming  products are based on their patented carbon polymer technology. This provides a completely uniform conductive heating surface, which is extremely flexible and is powered at low voltage (24Vac). There are no heating "elements", so warming is completely even, avoiding hot and cold spots and allowing much better heat transfer.

The carbon polymer is combined with a viscoelastic foam pad to give unrivalled heat transfer characteristics. The pliable heating surface provided by the polymer allows it to be placed above the pressure relieving pad, ensuring that there is no attenuation of the warming performance. The combination of these two materials allows the heating surface to mould itself to the shape of each individual patient, giving the largest possible area of contact. The viscoelastic properties ensure that the warming mattress returns to its original flat surface once the patient is removed, ready to be used for the next case. The mattress is encapsulated in a latex-free, nylon fabric cover, with non-microporous polyurethane coating, which is fully sealed with RF welded seams. This unique design ensures that the highest possible thermal transfer characteristics can be achieved, giving the best warming performance available.

Comparison with conventional heated mattresses

The carbon polymer technology is extremely durable and should not be confused with carbon fibre materials, which suffer from limited life and degradation of performance due to the fragile nature of the individual fibres and their consequent breakage during routine use. Similarly, there is no comparison between the Inditherm system and conventional technology mattresses; the latter typically use elements for heating and therefore cannot give anything like the same warming characteristics, which in most cases is further hampered by the need to use gel pads between the patient and the heating surface, for pressure relief. The Inditherm polymer also eliminates the risk of burning patients, which is associated with broken heating elements in traditional electrical mattresses. Water mattresses can give reasonable heating performance; however they are not nearly as convenient, typically suffer from reliability problems with annoying leakages and are normally considerably more expensive.

Comparison with Forced Air Warming

Forced air warming has been the dominant technology for over a decade. However, this method is not always considered convenient, requiring a special blanket on top of the patient and therefore reducing ease of access to the patient for the surgical, nursing and anaesthetic teams. Further, forced air also warms the surrounding environment and staff and can thus affect laminar flow operating room systems. The cost of disposable items associated with air warming is significant and may have an effect on the number of patients being actively warmed. As a result, ever increasing numbers of users are finding that the Inditherm system is much more effective, convenient and economical than forced air warming, and the standard therefore looks likely to change rapidly in the coming years.

Safe and easy to use

A control unit is used to maintain the mattresses and blankets at the user-selected temperature. Temperature is monitored by a thermistor built into the mattress or blanket and this signal is used to allow control of the power supplied. The control unit uses a transformer to convert the mains input to 24Vac, and regulates this to achieve and maintain the required heating. This low voltage operation ensures safety for both patient and staff, and the system is fully isolated and approved to medical device regulations for Class II, Type BF. A thermal cut-out is also integrated into the mattress or blanket to prevent over-temperature.