Expeditionary Immersion Circulating Heating Device: A Promising Technique for Treating Frostbite Injuries and Warming Intravenous Fluids in a Forward Deployed Cold Weather Environment
Abstract
Cold weather injuries require prompt warm water immersion therapy, which proves to be a difficult task in the cold austere environment. Current guidelines recommend 104 °F water immersion, but producing and maintaining large volumes of warm water is challenging in sub-freezing temperatures. We describe a novel process of utilizing a sous vide immersion circulator to maintain warm fluids for immersion therapy and efficient fluid rewarming in a cold forward-deployed setting for the treatment of cold weather injuries in an effort to bridge the gap between current medical guidelines and practices.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 2020
- Source ID
- 10.1093/milmed/usaa213
Entities
People
- Aaron Bernadette
- Eric M Vinceslio
- Jan-michael Van Gent
- Zane Fayos
Organizations
- 3rd Medical Battalion
- United States Department of Defense