Patent ID: 8123790
Filing Date: 2012-02-28
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
1. A method for warming a person preoperatively using a warming device constituted of a clinical garment with a lower hem, an inside, and sleeves, the clinical garment including permeable surfaces along the lower hem and lower inside portions of the sleeves, the method comprising: dressing the person with the clinical garment such that the lower hem is disposed adjacent the legs of the person and the lower inside portions of the sleeves are disposed adjacent the arms of the person, conducting warmed, pressurized air through a duct on the inside of the clinical garment extending along the lower hem, rising inside the clinical garment to the sleeves, and extending inside the sleeves; directing warmed, pressurized air at the legs of the person from the duct, through the permeable surface along the lower hem; and, directing warmed, pressurized air at the arms of the person from the duct, through the permeable surfaces that are disposed along the inside lower portions of the sleeves.