Patient Warming System for Optimizing Outcomes

HotDog Patient Warming Powered by Augustine Surgical HD

The Complete Temperature Management and Return Electrode Package

HotDog Patient Warming System with Temperature Management Controller and Patient with B500 Universal Warming Blankets

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Air-Free Warming Products

Temperature Management
Controllers

HotDog Temperature Management System WC77 Temperature Management Controller

The most advanced temperature management system ever developed

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WaffleGrip® Trendelenburg Patient Positioner

WaffleGrip Trendelenburg Positioning System on Operating Table with Patient

The ONLY effective warming solution for Trendelenburg position

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Patient Warming
Blankets

HotDog Temperature Management System B500 Warming Blanket on Patient

Easy to use for every surgical position

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Patient Warming Mattresses + Return Electrode

HotDog U501 Underbody Warming Mattress + Return Electrode 82 cm (32 in)

Warm from above and below simultaneously

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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.

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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