joyk

I was doing some searching on blanket warmer temps in preparation for a meeting at a large academic hospital where I work in oncology. We often have patients with chills that crave the warmth of a heated blanket, and they complain ever since we had to lower the temp of the warmer to 110. At the meeting, I plan to argue for a higher temp than the current 110 degree hospital policy, which stemmed from a 2005 recommendation from ECRI. Just discovered that ECRI haas retracted - they know recommend a max temp of 130 degrees for blanket warmers, but remind us not to put fluids in such warmers. Thank you ECRI! see http://policy.cdha.nshealth.ca/default.aspx?page=53&class285.Id.0=13453&class286.Id.0=13453