What is SCIP?

The Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) is a national quality partnership of
organizations committed to improving the safety of surgical care through the reduction of postoperative complications.

SCIP Inf-10, also known as the "National Normothermia Measure," mandates that all patients undergoing any surgical procedure under general or neuraxial anesthesia for one hour or longer must be normothermic before, during and after the procedure.

SCIP specifies that facilities must utilize an active warming modality, i.e. KOALA ∆T Warming System, or achieve the target temperature of 36˚C or greater within the 30 minutes immediately preceding anesthesia application and 15 minutes after anesthesia end time.

How will SCIP affect my facility and how I practice anesthesia?

SCIP-Inf-10 advocates warming for a much broader range of procedures than previous measures. Therefore, facilities are required to actively warm more patients than before. A greater emphasis is also placed on monitoring patient temperature during procedures.

KOALA ∆T makes patient warming simple, and affordable.

• Utilizing SCIP approved conductive thermal technology, KOALA ∆T Warming System is the first patented conductive underbody patient warming to prevent perioperative hypothermia.
• KOALA ∆T is reusable and energy efficient, making it the simplest solution to maintain normothermia and improve overall patient health
  and well-being.

KOALA ∆T Warming System provides unhindered patient access, recommended for open-heart, organ transplant, major abdominal, trauma and orthopedic procedures.

KOALA ∆T is recommended for the OR, ICU, PICU, CCU, PACU and ER. Affordable and user friendly, with minimal setup requirements, KOALA is also ideal for independent and outpatient surgery centers.

KOALA ∆T is Cost Efficient and Eco-friendly.