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3M Bair Hugger temperature management solutions

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Your patients' well-being and successful recovery is of the utmost importance to you. That's why we offer a comprehensive range of 3M™ Bair Hugger™ Temperature Management Solutions to support core temperature monitoring and patient normothermia throughout the surgical journey. 

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170+

Studies

And more than 60 randomized controlled trials.14,15

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35+

Years

Helping to protect patients from unintended perioperative 
hypothermia.15

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400M+

Patients

Warmed globally with our 
Bair Hugger Warming System.16

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Top hospitals in the USA

Use Bair Hugger Temperature Management Solutions.17

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The science behind heat transfer and why it matters

Temperature management is an essential part of patient care, to help keep a patient’s core temperature within the normothermic range of 36.0° to 37.5°C.12,13 If you’re not monitoring the body’s core temperature continuously and managing it consistently, you could be putting patients at risk for unintended perioperative hypothermia. However, this complication can be prevented or minimized by transferring heat to the body before, during and after surgery.



That’s why we’ve designed the Bair Hugger to help maintain normal core body temperature, known as normothermia, as well as to provide thermal comfort. Our solutions include noninvasive temperature monitoring systems, warming systems and warming gowns. These solutions are designed to aid normothermia maintenance, helping you safeguard your patients and improve surgical outcomes.



Our Bair Hugger Temperature Management Solutions can help address your patient warming needs. Explore our solutions to help you confidently and effectively maintain normothermia.

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Science of warming: Normothermia management from start to finish

The difference between a successful patient outcome and a complicated recovery can often be determined by a few degrees difference in body temperature. Unintended perioperative hypothermia is a common yet avoidable complication of anesthesia, known to increase the risk of surgical site infection (SSI),6,7 prolong recovery time,8 and even elevate mortality rates.9 However, by following a normothermia protocol which includes vigilant temperature monitoring and proactive warming measures prior to anesthesia induction through to recovery, hypothermia can be preventable.  

Start and end your patients’ perioperative journey with our 3M Bair Hugger Temperature Management System

By maintaining a normothermic core body temperature a patient's length of stay can be reduced by 2.6 days.11

How to proactively manage normothermia throughout the perioperative journey:

Preoperative (pre-op)

Prewarm

with forced-air warming for at least 10 minutes on highest setting.18

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Monitor

patient’s core body temperature.

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Prewarming prior to the induction of anesthesia helps to maintain normothermia and mitigate the effects of heat redistribution caused by anesthesia.

Intraoperative (intra-op)

Warm

with forced-air warming prior to anesthesia administration and continue to warm throughout the procedure. The gap from prewarming to IntraOp warming should be less than 10 minutes.19

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Monitor

patient’s core body temperature continuously during surgery.20

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Maintain

patient’s core body temperature near 36.5°C (36.6 + or - 0.5°C).21

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Every minute in delay of active warming increases odds of hypothermia by 5%.19

Fluid warming should be used if more than 1L of IV fluid will be administered.22

Postoperative (post-op)

Warm

with forced-air warming until patient is thermally comfortable and not shivering.23

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Monitor

patient’s temperature on admission to recovery room and then every 15 minutes until 36.0 degrees C or above.

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Maintain

patient’s core body temperature near 36.5°C (36.6 + or - 0.5°C).21

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By maintaining a patient’s core body temperature near 36.5°C (36.6 + or - 0.5°C), patient length of stay has been shown to be reduced by 2.6 days.21

3M Bair Hugger temperature management solutions

3M Bair Hugger warming blankets

Warming patients who are undergoing surgery is important, but it should not be complicated. Our 3M™ Bair Hugger™ warming blankets are designed to make your job easier by helping you deliver optimal care while maintaining normothermia.

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3M Bair Hugger warming gowns

Getting your patients safely through surgery and on their way home takes clinical expertise, along with a warm dose of compassion. The 3M™ Bair Hugger™ warming gowns add a unique dimension to patient warming, providing clinical and comfort-warming options in a single patient gown. Our warming gowns can help you maintain normothermia while helping to improve workflows, reduce costs and boost efficiencies.

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3M Bair Hugger warming units

Our 3M™ Bair Hugger™ warming units produce safe temperatures, are quiet and together with Bair Hugger blankets and gowns provide safe, effective warming to patients around the world. Our warming units have adjustable airflow and multiple temperature modes.

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3M Bair Hugger temperature monitoring system (control unit and sensor)

Our temperature monitoring system includes a control unit and a disposable sensor that stays with the patient. Together, they provide continuous, noninvasive measuring and reporting of core body temperature. The low-touch sensor allows consistent core temperature monitoring that helps eliminate the variability associated with the use of multiple systems and techniques.

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NOTE: Specific indications, limitations, contraindications, warnings, precautions and safety information exist for these products and therapies. Please consult a clinician and product instructions for use prior to application. Rx only.

Join our 3M Peak Clinical Outcomes Program for hypothermia

We want to help you maintain normothermia before, during and after surgery. Take a proactive approach to preventing hypothermia and its associated complications with the 3M™ Peak™ Clinical Outcomes Program. We can provide you with the resources you need to better understand the importance of prewarming, in addition to intraoperative warming, implement evidence-based best practices and drive change at your facility. Let’s work together to help you protect and improve outcomes for your patients during their surgical journey.

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Resources to help maintain normothermia

The temperature monitoring process can be overwhelming. We offer useful resources to help you learn more about our solutions and how they can help you monitor and maintain your patients’ normal core body temperature — normothermia — throughout their perioperative journey.  

Bair Hugger temperature management solutions comparative heat transfer evaluations
Interative PDF demonstrating 3M™ Bair Hugger™ TMS Comparative Heat Transfer Evaluations high res
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Bair Hugger temperature management solutions brochure
Surrounded by your care and our science. Unintended perioperative hypothermia is a preventable condition that can have costly, harmful, and even deadly consequences
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Bair Hugger temperature management solutions catalog
Explore products that actively manage normothermia throughout the perioperative journey
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Bair Hugger specialty brochure
See alternatives for your surgical procedures
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Bair Hugger Temperature Monitoring System Brochure
3M™ Bair Hugger™ Temperature Monitoring System Brochure en IL
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The benefits of prewarming flyer
Because a few degrees can make all the difference
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Bair Hugger greener practices reference guide
Bair Hugger warming blankets and warming gowns help support greener practices and maintain patient normothermia
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Bair Hugger temperature monitoring system brochure
The limitations of many temperature monitoring methods — whether accuracy, invasiveness or the technology itself — are requiring hospitals to stock and use multiple modalities throughout the perioperative journey. Each method introduces variation based on its accuracy and technique.
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Resources for you

The 3M Peak Clinical Outcomes Program

Make a difference with our 3M™ Peak™ Clinical Outcomes Program. Learn more about our collaborative approach to practice improvements associated with the use of our solutions and helping you improve your patient’s surgical outcomes.

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  22. Horowitz PE, Delagarza MA, Pulaski JJ, Smith RA. Flow rates and warming efficacy with Hotline and Ranger blood/fluid warmers. Anesth Analg. 2004; 99 (3): 788-792.
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