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3M Bair Hugger Temperature Management Solutions

Improve patient outcomes

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 randomised 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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21 of 22

Top hospitals in the USA

Use Bair Hugger Temperature Management Solutions.17

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 minimised 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 non-invasive 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 anaesthesia, 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 anaesthesia 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)

Actively measure your patients’ temperature. Prewarm them with the 3Mᵀᴹ Bair Huggerᵀᴹ Warming System to help prevent hypothermia.

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 anaesthesia helps to maintain normothermia and mitigate the effects of heat redistribution caused by anaesthesia.

Intraoperative (intra-op)

Warm

with forced-air warming prior to anaesthesia 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 500ml of intravenous fluids or blood products will be administered.20

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.

Ícono utilizado para describir el monitoreo de la temperatura corporal central de un paciente, púrpura oscuro
Maintain

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

Ícono utilizado para describir el mantenimiento de la temperatura corporal central de un paciente, púrpura oscuro

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, non-invasive 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.

Learn more about our Quality Improvement Programmes

We want to help you maintain normothermia before, during and after surgery. Take a proactive approach to preventing hypothermia and its associated complications by taking part in a Quality Improvement Programme. We can provide you with the resources 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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Faw Facts

The importance of patient warming

Understand the importance of patient warming and get peace of mind by exploring the evidence-based facts about forced-air warming.

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  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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  16. 3M Data on File: EM-05-233213, EM-05-268428.
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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.
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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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