NICU: Enteral Feeding Warmer?

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Greetings,

My hospital currently uses a hospital grade milk warmer for warming and thawing of human milk. A few of us attended a conference recently in which we saw an enteral warming device that seemed interesting but would require us to switch out all of our tubing, extension sets etc...and we could not get the woman at the booth to tell us even a base line cost for the warmer, much less all the tubing etc.... Is there anyone out there that 1) uses an enteral feeding warmer and if so, what brand? 2) how many did you buy and what was the capital expenditure...3) did you have to switch out your tubing etc...and if so what was the cost of doing all the switching?

A few of my staff want to trial the product but I'm really not interested in doing so if I have to pay a ton of money to switch my entire feeding system. I am not going to trial something and then have to tell my nurses no at the end.

I would love as many opinions and thoughts as you are willing to give as I want to make an informed decision from the nursing world and not from a "sales pitch."

Thanks so much!