Combat Fluid Warmer
Combat Fluid Warmer
- Clinical Condition
- All IV fluids have to be warmed up at 37C before infused in the body.
- Current Practice
- There are portable fluid warmers but they are battery operated.
Battery can run out and is usually too heavy to carry around. - Solution
- The only battery-less, flame-less, portable, low-weight, chemically powered IV fluid warmer for the battlefield.
- Early proof-of-concept successful and published.
- IP (PCT/US filing) belongs to Partners Healthcare. US national phase patent application filed.
- Market is the entire field of IV placement both civilian and trauma.
- Licensing to companies like Belmont Instruments to integrate with existing device battery operated portable fluid warmer (Buddy LiteTM).
