Bear Hugger Warming Device

The device also known as a warming blanket is used during surgery to help regulate a patient s body temperature.

Bear hugger warming device. The 3m bair hugger normothermia system provides a wide range of patient warming products that play a critical role in maintaining normothermia helping safeguard patients and improving outcomes. Augustine later invented a different type of patient warming device and formed a separate company to sell his competing device. The bair hugger system received fda clearance in 1987. Is battling lawsuits from more than 50 orthopedic surgery patients who say the company s popular bair hugger warming blankets used to keep people warm before surgery circulated.

Food and drug administration fda cleared the first bair hugger warming system in 1987 through the 510 k premarket clearance program as a substantially equivalent device. Under the 510 k program the fda can clear a medical device without clinical proof that it is safe if it is similar enough to a previous device already on the market. Augustine resigned from arizant in 2002 and arizant was bought by 3m in 2009.