Thermal Armour Modular Warming System

Hypothermia is the world’s most common serious adverse event during surgery, increasing the chances of bleeding, infection, cardiac complications, and even death. Surgical hypothermia effects one in two surgery patients – 150 million people every year. Placing significant burden on the healthcare system and costing Australians $1.2B each year, due to increased hospital stays and cost of care. Clinical data shows that traditional forced-air solutions are ineffective and have led to thousands of lawsuits over safety concerns. Thermal Armour addresses this challenge by combining active and passive patient warming technology to provide therapeutic benefit to patients throughout the entire patient journey.

Thermal Armour’s modular warming system, consisting of an upper body, lower body, and full body coverage option, can be modified to suit any patient or surgery and warms 86-99% more body surface area than any other system. Thermal Armour’s world-first patient warming technology combines passive and active warming. The smart, conductive fabric technology incorporates advanced electrical heating and intelligent temperature sensors, to deliver safe, reliable, and consistent heating. The battery-powered system is the only truly portable patient warming device on the market, providing patients the freedom to receive the therapeutic benefits of patient warming both pre, during, and post-surgery.

Despite guidelines recommending the use of patient warming devices, hypothermia is still the most common adverse event in surgery. Preventing post-surgery complications is not only good for patient care but it is economically smart for hospitals and clinicians. Avoiding adverse events from hypothermia saves up to, $8000 per patient, $800,000 per annum in an average surgical hospital, and $1.2B in Australia alone. Traditional forced-air technologies have not only been proven ineffective, but their single-use design is environmentally damaging. Thermal Armour’s reusable design represents a more sustainable future, reducing medical waste dramatically by eliminating over 200 tonnes annually.

•Advanced, high-efficiency, conductive fabric: Multi-layered, insulated polymer technology Tough, durable, hydrophobic outer layer that can be easily sanitised between patients Reflective layer to provide optimal heat transfer to the patient and ensure maximum therapeutic projection Lightweight, flexible construction and material selection, designed to maximise patient comfort and hygiene •Rapid heat functionality, heats to temperature within two minutes and maintains a consistent temperature within ± 1ºC variation •Therapeutic temperature range from 38ºC to 43ºC and adjustable temperature range in 0.5ºC increments for precise patient warming •Modular blanket design, consisting of an upper body, lower body, and full body coverage option, can be modified to suit the patient and specific surgery, allowing Thermal Armour to warm 86-99% more body surface area than any other system •The design minimises electromagnetic interference, making it safe for use in sensitive environments and compatible with other medical devices •Designed to be reusable, significantly reducing waste and cost associated with single-use warming products, and can be easily cleaned and sanitised between patients •Silently warms continuously via battery or mains power •Portable, compact battery control system provides the freedom to warm patients through the complete patient journey, from admission, surgery, and discharge