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3M Bair Hugger temperature management solutions

Go beyond the blanket

With a solution that brings the heat — and the insight

Discover a temperature management solution that goes beyond ordinary warming, combining consistent heat with real-time, continuous core temperature monitoring to support informed clinical decision-making. Bair Hugger Temperature Management Solutions help reduce the risk of unintended hypothermia, support guideline adherence and streamline workflow — helping drive better patient outcomes and lower complication-related costs.

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Proven Evidence. Trusted Performance.

The most studied warming solution

170+ studies
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60+ randomized trials
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3X more studies than other available systems
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The Bair Hugger warming system is backed by more published outcomes research.*"

*Compared to other leading convective and conductive warming systems on the market

Chosen by the best. Proven around the world.

The Original forced-air warming technology

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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90% top hospitals in the USA

Use Bair Hugger Temperature Management Solutions.17*

*As defined by U.S. News and World Report. America's Best Hospitals: the 2025-2026 Honor Roll and Overview, based on overall performance across a range of specialties.

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Supported by extensive clinical evidence, trusted in practice, and helping clinicians make confident, data-informed decisions every day.

Trusted performance. Proven heat transfer.

Backed by decades of clinical use and extensive research, the Bair Hugger warming system combines proven warming performance with effective heat delivery. Comparative testing of select blanket models/warming unit models demonstrates that the Bair Hugger warming system consistently delivers significantly greater and more uniform heat transfer than leading competitors*, helping support effective temperature management throughout the perioperative journey.

*Temperature measurements were taken in accordance with IEC 60601-235:2020, heat transfer coefficients were measured using the method of Brauer et al.30-32 and skin temperatures for the calculation of ‘Q’ were assumed to be 34°C.9 Heat rates are estimates based upon a typical use case, actual heat rate may vary depending on the patient circumstances and clinical practice.

See how The Bair Hugger warming system compares
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Solutions for every stage of care

Blankets, gowns and monitoring — designed with patients in mind

 

Bair Hugger Temperature Management Solutions provide an integrated approach to patient warming and temperature monitoring. Designed to work in harmony, each component supports consistent temperature management, real-time visibility, and adaptability across the perioperative journey.

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.

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

Enhancing Surgical Safety: AORN ERAS Center of Excellence

By joining the AORN CoE program, your facility gains access to:

  • Expert guidance from Solventum on protocol development and training
  • Tailored resources and education for your facility
  • National recognition with an AORN Center of Excellence award for outstanding surgical care

 

In partnership with Pacria and Conmed

Sign up today at AORN.org
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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™ Heat Transfer Comparison
Comparative heat transfer evaluations comparing Bair Hugger™ warming units and blankets to unnamed competitors.
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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™ & Ranger™ Catalog
Actively manage normothermia through the perioperative journey.
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Bair Hugger™ Warming System Specialty Brochure
Bair Hugger Warming System. Help prevent unintended hypothermia for all surgical patients - alternatives for your surgical procedures.
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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
Setting the standard in core temperature monitoring
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Bair Hugger Temperature Monitoring System Brochure
The power of knowing throughout their journey. A consistent, non-invasive way to accurately monitor patient core temperature across the perioperative process.
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Bair Hugger™ Temperature Monitoring System Clinical Evidence Summary
Clinical Evidence Summary - 3M Bair Hugger Temperature Monitoring System
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Bair Hugger™ Temperature Management Solutions Brochure
Bair Hugger Temperature Management Solutions. Go Beyond the blanket with a solution that brings the heat - and the insight.
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References:

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  3. Bush HL Jr, Hydo LJ, et al. Hypothermia during elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: the high price of avoidable morbidity. J Vasc Surg. 1995;21:392-400; discussion 400-392.
  4. Lau A, Lowlaavar N, Cooke EM, et al. Effect of preoperative warming on intraoperative hypothermia: a randomized-controlled trial. Can J Anesth. 2018. doi.org/10.1007/s12630-018-1161-8. 
  5. Kurz A, Sessler DI, Lenhardt R. Perioperative normothermia to reduce the incidence of surgical-wound infection and shorten hospitalization. NEJM. 1996 May 9; 334 (19): 1209-16.
  6. Horn, EP, Bein B, Bohm R, Steinfath M, Sahilin, and Hocker J. The effect of short time periods of pre-operative warming in the prevention of peri-operative hypothermia. Anaesthesia. 2012; 67: 612–617.
  7. Nelson G, Altman AD, Nick A, et al. Guidelines for pre- and intra-operative care in gynecologic/oncology surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) Society recommendations — Part I. Gynecologic Oncology. 2015; 2016; 140: 313-322.
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  13. Hooper VD, Chard R, Clifford T, Fetzer S, Fossum S, Godden B, Martinez EA, Noble KA, O’Brien D, Odom-Forren J, Peterson C, Ross J, Wilson L. ASPAN’s Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline for the Promotion of Perioperative Normothermia: Second Edition. J PeriAnesth Nurs. Vol 25, No 6 (December), 2010: pp 346-365.
  14. 3M Data on File: EM-05-297733, EM-05-711315.
  15. 3M™ Bair Hugger™ System Research Compendium, 2017 at: FAWFACTS.com.
  16. 3M Data on File: EM-05-233213, EM-05-268428.
  17. U.S. News & World Report. Best Hospitals 2025-2026 Honor Roll. Published July 29, 2025. U.S. News Best Hospitals.
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  19. Lau A, Lowlaavar N, Cooke EM, et al. Effect of preoperative warming on intraoperative hypothermia: a randomized-controlled trial. Can J Anesth. 2018. doi.org/10.1007/s12630-018-1161-8.
  20. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Hypothermia: prevention and management in adults having surgery. Clinical Guideline [CG65]. (2016). https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg65/chapter/Recommendations#perioperative-care. Published April 2008. Updated December 2016. Accessed July 18, 2019.
  21. Kurz A, Sessler DI, Lenhardt R. Perioperative normothermia to reduce the incidence of surgical-wound infection and shorten hospitalization. NEJM. 1996 May 9; 334 (19): 1209-16.
  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.
  23. Nelson G, Altman AD, Nick A, et al. Guidelines for pre- and intra-operative care in gynecologic/oncology surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) Society recommendations — Part I. Gynecologic Oncology. 2015; 2016; 140: 313-322.
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  30. Bräuer, A., English, M. J., Sander, H., Timmermann, A., Braun, U., & Weyland, W. (2002). Construction and evaluation of a manikin for perioperative heat exchange. Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica,46, 43-50. doi:10.1034/j.1399- 6576.2002.460108.x 8. 7.
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