METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HEATING AND/OR THAWING BLOOD PRODUCTS
摘要
A device of heating one or more blood product units using electromagnetic (EM) energy. The device comprises a chamber sized and shaped for containing at least one frozen blood product unit, a dielectric heating unit for applying electromagnetic (EM) energy at a plurality of frequencies to the at least one blood product unit, and a controller for operating the dielectric heating unit to heat the at least one frozen blood product unit to about a body temperature in less than 3 minutes according to a heating pattern.