BACKGROUND Few studies have investigated the effectiveness of intravenous fluid warmers at low and moderate flow rates below 1,000 ml/h. In this study, we compared the effectiveness of three different fluid warmers at a low flow rate (440 ml/h). METHODS We experimentally investigated the fluid warming performances of Mega Acer Kit® (Group M, n = 10), Ranger™ (Group R, n = 10), and ThermoSens®...

Plus II Infusion Pump is unique in several important respects. First, according to Abbott, by 2000, this device was the market leader, was used around the world, and accounted for about 75% of all PCA use in the U.S., being used in nearly 4,000 hospitals there.3,4 Furthermore, in 2001, ECRI (formerly the Emergency Care Research Institute, www.ecri.org) stated "this pump has a significant safety...

horrific end, foiling yet another search for a Northwest Passage. Despite dozens of rescue missions in the following years, none of Franklin’s crew was seen alive again. Yet it was those missions that finally led to the mapping of a water route to the Orient— albeit an ice-clogged one. The centuries-long quest for the fabled Northwest Passage proved quixotic for generations of explorers, but wh...