Search PubMed⌕ Search

SEARCH · Search PubMed

Results for “Rewarming”

Search indexed PubMed citations on genomics, clinical trials, systematic reviews and public health. Explore titles, authors and supplied subject terms, then open the PubMed record.

Quote a phrase for an exact phrase match. Source license links do not imply unrestricted reuse.

At least 505 records · Page 28Linked to original sources

A continuous hybrid microwave heating process for producing rapid and uniform rewarming of cryopreserved tissues.

This study investigated use of a continuous hybrid microwave heating process for producing rapid and uniform heating of cryopreserved tissues. This process combines volumetric energy deposition by microwaves with convective surface heating to produce increased warming rates. Moreover, such as a combination of heating techniques introduces additional parameters which can be varied in order to obtain better control of the heating process. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of a continuous hybrid heating scheme, a numerical simulation was developed which solved for electric and temperature fields within a microwave resonant cavity containing beef tissue. The simulation accounted for the temperature dependence of cryopreserved tissue's dielectric properties through an iterative scheme which can simulate thermal runaway. The simulation indicated that a continuous hybrid heating heating process could produce uniform warming at rates which would be unobtainable by conventional microwave heating.

Cryopreservation↗

Rewarming preterm infants on a heated, water filled mattress.

Sixty low birthweight infants (1000-2000 g) admitted to a neonatal care unit in Turkey were studied. Those not requiring intensive care were randomly assigned for treatment either in a cot on a heated, water filled mattress kept at 37 degrees C (n = 28) or in air heated incubators with a mean air temperature of 35 degrees C (n = 32). On admission 53 (88.3%) of the infants had body temperatures between 30 degrees and 36 degrees C. There was good correlation between axillary and rectal temperatures in the infants while they were hypothermic. Normal temperatures were achieved within the first day and remained within this range during the subsequent days after admission in all the infants treated on the heated, water filled mattress, whereas they were not achieved until three days later in the incubator group. The neonatal mortality among those treated on the heated, water filled mattress was 21%, and among those treated in the incubator 34%. The heated, water filled mattress provides a good alternative to skin to skin contact with the mother, and to the use of a complex and expensive incubator for rapidly attaining and maintaining normal temperatures in the low birthweight newborn.

Beds↗