Ross Milligan
January 6th, 2003, 07:00 AM
A couple of questions about using a dimmable frezzi mini......
1. Do they give off lots of heat?
The reason I am asking is that I would be using the camera/lamp in an operating theatre environment and too much heat can dry out a wound and cause anaesthetic problems. I normally bounce 4 redheads to raise the general illumination level in the theatre and make use of the operating lamp but recently I've been doing some stuff deep in the abdomen and having a directional lamp would be handy. I'm not looking for anything exact but would anyone say that 2 - 3 feet from the lamp there is a significant warming effect?
2. I have saftey glass on the redheads. My worst nightmare is a bulb blowing and glass chards entering the open wound (arrgh I don't even want to think about it..... glass cannot be picked up on xray). Has anyone ever had a blub blow, as in shatter?
Any help would be appreciated as patient safety is my primary concern.
Ross
1. Do they give off lots of heat?
The reason I am asking is that I would be using the camera/lamp in an operating theatre environment and too much heat can dry out a wound and cause anaesthetic problems. I normally bounce 4 redheads to raise the general illumination level in the theatre and make use of the operating lamp but recently I've been doing some stuff deep in the abdomen and having a directional lamp would be handy. I'm not looking for anything exact but would anyone say that 2 - 3 feet from the lamp there is a significant warming effect?
2. I have saftey glass on the redheads. My worst nightmare is a bulb blowing and glass chards entering the open wound (arrgh I don't even want to think about it..... glass cannot be picked up on xray). Has anyone ever had a blub blow, as in shatter?
Any help would be appreciated as patient safety is my primary concern.
Ross