I have been tasked out to see if anyone know where I can find heated dialysis chairs? anyone? thanks

I have been searching for the same thing for a couple of years. As of last October, there are no heated chairs approved for the health care setting. I did talk with Paul, the head of Champion chairs. He said if enough people were interested they would consider making one but they would cost more than regular chairs. I am certainly willing to pay more. They were looking at making one based on the same theory of heated car seats. You could contact him and express your interest.

please contact me to discuss it further I am very interested. dialysistech2001@yahoo.com or call me at 254-680-1371 ask Guy.

We are developing right now a chair with a heating option.
Anyone interested please be so kind and contact us at 800-366-0546 and ask for Monica.
We offer additional options such as removable arm, 2 heights, 3 sizes and numerous colors.Or feel free to e-mail me your requests at DISCOUNT.MEDICAL@att.net

What is the reason you are asking for heated chairs. If it is a temperature comfort problem with a single or many patients,then this would be a suggestion.
Most of your Dialysis Machines, not all, have a temperature control adjustment for patient comfort that allows the operator to increase or decrease temperature. Be very aware that if this is the case, then be sure that you aproach your DON with the idea and get a Doctors approval before adjusting temoerature because temperature affects conductivity . Maybe this may be helpful

Gary,

The conductivity on the machines are "temperature compensated".

Thank you for all your help. I am aware of that we can change the dialysate temperature to make it more comfortable for the patient. In this case the medical director is more interested in
providing good old fashion warmth for the patient. Our clinics our cold due to the temperaure settings if we lower the temperature
the building will turn very hot during the day as the sun comes up and especially in the latter part of the day. The building itself will not be able to cool down enough. We either freeze the morning patients or sweat out the afternoon ones. This is some of the problems of being in older buildings and in Texas. We are just trying to make the patients more comfortable as much as posible during their treatment. We did find a company that make these chair for around $600 each. Thanks again.

How does temp affect conductivity? Does it affect anything else? Is it a doctors order? What is the highest it can be set without problems?

Bill,

Conductivity is a measurement of how well a solution will conduct an electrical current. The more ions in a solution, the higher the conductivity because the current does not have to jump as far between ions. As temperature increases the conductivity will increase also because the ions become "excited". The conductivity cells in the machine automatically compensate for different temperatures.

The temperature on the machine can be typically be adjusted between 35.5 C to 39.5 C with 37-37.5 being the average. The machines will alarm and go into bypass if the temperature should go above 40 C. This is to protect the patients blood from being hemolyzed which will occur at 42 C.

There are a small number of patients who can become hypotensive if the dialysate temperature towards the higher limit.

My machine temp was showing 37.4 so I asked the tech to put it down to 37. He set it for 37 but it then went to 36.8. Does this mean the temp is out of calibation? How is it corrected?