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).