Intended Users; Expected Service Life; Contraindications - Stryker Altrix Handbuch

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Intended use (Continued)
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• For use in all clinical settings including coronary care units, operating, recovery and emergency departments, burn
units, and medical/surgical units
• Adult and pediatric patients
• Monitoring and controlling patient temperature
• Temperature reduction in patients where clinically indicated, e.g. in hyperthermic patients
• Mild therapeutic hypothermia for post cardiac arrest
• Mild therapeutic hypothermia Neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE)
• Mild therapeutic hypothermia post traumatic brain injury (TBI)

Intended users

• Physicians
• Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
• Nurses

Expected service life

The Altrix controller has a five year expected service life under normal use, conditions, and with appropriate periodic
maintenance. See the maintenance manual for preventive maintenance and service information.

Contraindications

For core body temperature regulation:
• Raynaud's Phenomenon (primary or secondary)
• Application to lower extremities distal to aortic cross-clamping
For inducing mild hypothermia
Absolute
• Hemorrhagic stroke
• Cardiac arrest due to trauma
• Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) >=eight
• Cardiac arrest due to drug overdose
• Pre-existing hypothermia (<34.0° C; 93.2° F)
• Uncontrolled active bleeding
• Uncontrolled hemodynamically unstable arrhythmias
Relative
• Thrombocytopenia (platelet count <50x109/L) or baseline coagulopathy
• Severe refractory hypotension (mean arterial pressure <60mmHg) not corrected by fluid infusion, vasopressors or
invasive hemodynamic support
• Prolonged cardiac arrest (>60 minutes)
• Pregnancy
• Terminal condition
• Valid Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) directives
• ROSC greater than six hours
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