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Article: Warming device speeds recovery. (device that uses negative-pressure warming speeds up recovery from body chill caused by anesthesia and has other applications)(Brief Article)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- October 1, 1997
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A new warming device could cut from hours to minutes the time patients need to recover from the body-chilling effects of anesthesia, Stanford (Calif.) University researchers suggest. It also may help them avoid surgical wound infections associated with recovery and have uses outside the operating room in cases of hypothermia, or abnormally low body temperature, points out Dennis A. Grahn, a senior research scientist in the Department of Biological Sciences. "For instance, emergency medical crews might use this type of device at the site of a mountain rescue."
Recovery from anesthesia generally is uncomfortable, lengthy, and in some cases unhealthy. This is ...