RE: IV fluid warmers

ADRIAN TANASE — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 21:42:51 GMT

Indeed, apart from dogs, only cats on high rate fluid benefit the most. If a cat is quite poorly and doesn't moves much (or under GA) I place the warmer very very close to the IV catheter. Not my first choice in warming a patient but I added as often as is necessary.

RE: IV fluid warmers

Thomas Johnson — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:48:43 GMT

[quote userid="6386" url="~/001/veterinary-clinical/small-animal/anaesthesia/f/discussions/29750/iv-fluid-warmers"]Thoughts on effectiveness please (in cats only)[/quote]

There's this study:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24871065/

I'm generally not a fan, I've not found it practical to have the fluid warmer close enough to the patient to be effective, and the study suggests that at the sort of flow rates used in cats there's probably no benefit.