Smisson-Cartledge Biomedical, LLC products

The ThermaCor 1200 Rapid Infuser was conceived of by two surgeons at a level one trauma center.  Drs. Hugh Smisson and Richard Cartledge were on trauma call when a twelve-year-old child was brought in with major injuries from a motor vehicle accident. The child was experiencing severe internal bleeding.  The trauma staff was manually squeezing units of blood into her while trying to get their then current rapid infusion system set up.  By the time the staff could set up the system and get it operating properly, the patient had died.  The surgeons were concerned that the equipment the hospital had was inadequate; so, they investigated other infusion systems in use by major trauma centers. They determined that other facilities were using similar equipment and struggled to get their systems set up and operating quickly, thus discovering the need for a better way to rapidly infuse patients at a normothermic temperature.