It was reported that an arctic sun device was getting alert 113 (reduced water temperature control) and the patient was in rewarming phase.
Water temperature was 30.
6 c, patient temperature was via esophageal probe 33.
8 c, via rectal probe connected to device 34.
8 c.
There was a good flow, water level had 4 bars.
Rewarm from reading was 33.
6 c, rate 0.
25 c/hr and target temperature was 37 c.
Ms&s decided to check heater in case it was an overfill scenario.
They rained 400 cc off right drain port and set device to 42 c in manual mode.
Water temperature was at 41 c range.
The user put device back into rewarming.
Ms&s explained temperature lag time difference with esophageal probe versus rectal probe and caused for alert 113.
Ms&s recommended checking alternate source for temperature to see which correlates more closely and also explained that if the user gets alert 113 again to take device out of service.
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