Warming Cabinets, Cooling Cabinets and Freezers

Warming cabinets and cooling cabinets are intended for surgical convenience, allowing the normal saline and medicines used during surgery to be treated before the operation, so as to ensure convenient use during the surgical process. For example, some medicines, supplies, and organs to be transplanted into the patient's body require low-temperature storage, yet must be warmed back to a temperature similar to the patient's body temperature when used; to shorten the transfer process, this equipment should be installed in the operating room. However, since the price is relatively high, it is not necessary to install one in every operating room. For the warming cabinet, cooling cabinet and freezer, see Figure 6.20. Figure 6.19　An example of an information panel

Figure 6.20　Warming cabinet, cooling cabinet, and freezing cabinet

[Reference]　Warming cabinets, cooling cabinets, and freezing cabinets are not part of the basic equipment of the operating room. The temperature of the cooling cabinet is required to be controlled at 4℃±2℃, the warming cabinet at 39℃±2℃, and the freezing cabinet is set at 0℃～22℃±2℃. Cooling cabinets are mainly used for storing plasma and medicines requiring low-temperature storage, while warming cabinets are mainly used for warming plasma or large-volume infusions; in both cases, the fluids are warmed temporarily before use to prevent patients from being infused with too much cold liquid. Cooling cabinets, warming cabinets, and freezing cabinets may be placed in the medicine room, with one set shared by several operating rooms.