Designed by a physician to advance quality care and secure better outcomes

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is implementing a set of Pay-for-Performance (P4P) initiatives to support quality improvement in the care of Medicare beneficiaries, a move that will likely spread to commercial insurance. Governmental pressures also are mounting regarding value-based purchasing (e.g., Deficit Reduction Act, Tax Relief Act). To this end, the American Medical Association has signed the Joint House-Senate Working Agreement that promises to develop 140 performance measures covering 34 clinical areas. The agreement also stipulates that physicians will voluntarily report three to five such performance measures.

The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) has submitted maintenance of normothermia as a physician performance measure and is waiting for acceptance from CMS. The superior ability of Heat Treat medical warming blankets to maintain patients' core body temperature for up to 12 hours during surgery offers physicians and hospitals a reliable, effective tool for meeting this performance measure.

Designed by an anesthesiologist concerned for the wellbeing of his patients and a chemical engineer with years of experience in safe chemical warmers, the Heat Treat medical warming blanket is a revolutionary answer to the complications that ensue from hypothermia.

Created initially for the surgical continuum, but with applications for intensive care units, emergency medicine and other clinical areas, Heat Treat medical warming blankets employ innovative, self-heating technology that eliminate the need and inefficiency of multiple cotton blankets and the noise and safety risks of forced-air warming devices. The 5’ x 3.5’ surgical drape includes 12 pockets that contain air-activated warmers in a proprietary geometrical configuration that provides continuous thermal coverage (CTC) with active warming for up to 12 hours. Heat Treat medical warming blankets can be positioned to adjust the warming of available body surface for any procedure.

Heat Treat medical warming blanket's constant, reliable heat source maintains the patient's core body temperature from pre-op through recovery safely and efficiently. By minimizing hypothermia, Heat Treat medical warming blankets also decrease the risks of infection, prolonged emergence, bleeding, and cardiac morbidity that result in increased costs per surgical case due to longer hospital stays, increased use of red blood cell, plasma and platelets, increased need for mechanical ventilation, and increased cardiac problems.

With Heat Treat medical warming blankets, there are no more:

• Delays in providing active warming during anesthesia induction
• Piles of inefficient warmed cotton blankets
• Loud blowers that produce more than 50 decibels of distracting noise
• Distortion of surgical draping with air-filled blankets
• “Hosing” burns
• Nosocomial infections from blower hoses
• Worries about compliance with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and medical liability issues
• Waste of electricity with blowers and blanket warmers
• Blower and blanket warmer maintenance
• Partial coverage of the hypothermia problem…pre-op and Continuous Thermal Coverage will be the standard.

Contact us to set up a trial study of Heat Treat medical warming blankets at your facility

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