Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Heat Loss in Humans Warmed with Various Full-body Forced-air Heating Systems
Authors' conclusion
All five forced-air warming systems transferred substantial amounts of heat. There were no statistically significant or clinically meaningful differences in cutaneous heat transfer, mean skin temperature, or thermal comfort across the systems.
Study context
- Population
- Healthy volunteersall completed
- Participants
- 20 volunteers
- Comparison
- Five full-body forced-air warming blower and cover combinations
- Primary endpoint
- Heat flux, mean skin temperature, and thermal comfort
Methodological detailscontrolled clinical setting, 45-min washout, Ambient temperature averaged 20.3° ± 2.4°C
- Controlled clinical setting
- 45-min washout
- Ambient temperature averaged 20.3° ± 2.4°C
Primary result
As reported in the abstract
Cutaneous heat flux, mean skin temperature, thermal comfort
- Heat flux across all systems improved from a loss of 101 ± 53 W to a gain of 20 ± 48 W after 5 min of heating
- Skin temperature increased to 35.5° ± 0.8°C within 15 min of warming, stable thereafter
- No statistically significant or clinically meaningful differences in heat transfer, mean skin temperature, or thermal comfort across the systems
Original publication
Heat Loss in Humans Warmed with Various Full-body Forced-air Heating Systems. Anesthesiology. Published 20 August 2025. doi:10.
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