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HotDog is your patient warming solution to meet today's warming guidelines.

Unintended patient hypothermia is proven to increase the chance of myocardial infarction and morbid cardiac events, interfere with drug metabolism, triple the rate of surgical site infections, impair wound healing, and increase postoperative bleeding and blood transfusion needs. It is the standard of care to warm patients intraoperatively.

In an effort to provide the best care of patients, there are a number of healthcare quality initiatives that promote best practices for perioperative temperature management such as SCIP, PQRI, and ASPAN guidelines.

SCIP-Inf-10

CMS and the Joint Commission participate in the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP). Perioperative temperature management is addressed in SCIP-Inf-10, which provides that "active warming" be used on all surgical patients undergoing anesthesia for more than one hour. HotDog conductive fabric patient warming is accepted as "active warming" by SCIP. Patient warming modalities that fulfill the definition of active warming are: conductive warming, resistive warming, forced-air warming, and warm water garments.

The SCIP measures are part of the 46 quality measures that must be reported on in 2010 for hospitals to receive the full "market basket update" for FY 2011. Facilities that report on the quality measures, including SCIP-Inf-10, will receive the full "market basket update" for FY 2011. Those that do not will receive only 98%.