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Connect with usWe are on a mission to reduce the risk of perioperative hypothermia complications
Unintended hypothermia is easily preventable. Studies show that warming patients by maintaining a core temperature of 36ºC or higher, helps to improve outcomes by reducing the frequency of complications often associated with inadvertent hypothermia. The consequences of hypothermia include higher mortality rates, longer hospital stays and an increased rate of wound infection.1-5 3M is dedicated to providing patient warming solutions that help to enhance patient recovery.
Contact us to find out how 3M can help your organisation to achieve its patient warming goals.
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Our 3M specialists can’t wait to get back in the field with our clinical customers, but in the meantime, we can offer online consultations and virtual demonstrations. We’re here for you.
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Forced-air warming is recommended by guidelines around the world. But do you know how it really works? Hear from the experts.
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Don’t just take our word for it! Clinicians around the world have been implementing the optimal warming protocol using the 3M Bair Hugger Normothermia System with highly positive results.
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Now that you are ready to take action to improve patient outcomes, we are here to support you with tools and resources to make positive changes in practice.
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The Science of Warming: The Physiology and Physics of Forced-air Warming
- Prof. Dr. Anselm Bräuer is a Consultant Anaesthetist and leading normothermia expert who has published more than 70 articles about hypothermia, over 20 book chapters, and is co-author of the German, Austrian and Swiss Guidelines for the prevention of perioperative hypothermia.
- In two short videos, Prof. Bräuer explains how forced-air warmers change the heat balance of the patient in the operating room and describes how actively warming the patient before induction of anaesthesia, can minimise redistribution temperature drop.
- You will also learn about the physics between the warming unit and the blanket heat exchange system, and between the warming blanket and patient.
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Prewarming: Reducing the risk of complications in surgical patients
- Clinicians around the world have been implementing the optimal warming protocol using the 3M Bair Hugger Normothermia System with highly positive results. In this short online module, normothermia experts share their experiences and knowledge.
- Prof. Alfonsi, co-author of the 2018 expert recommendations of the French Society of Anaesthesia (SFAR), shares insights from his published study highlighting effect that interruptions in active warming can have on perioperative hypothermia.
- Prof. Bräuer explains the importance of pre-warming in the prevention of perioperative hypothermia in surgical patients.
- And finally, Dr. Grote shares his real world practical experience of significantly reducing hypothermia rates by implementing a pre-warming protocol with the Bair Hugger Normothermia System.
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Now that you are ready to take action to improve patient outcomes, we are here to support you with tools and resources to make positive changes in practice. Download a recent budget impact analysis on pre-warming below, or visit our main page to explore other resources available.
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Bair Hugger Normothermia System Resources
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We also have a team of 3M representatives and clinical experts who can support you in implementing an effective normothermia protocol in your clinical practice.
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Contact us today and your local representative will be in touch.
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References
- Sessler D.I. (1997) Current concepts: mild perioperative hypothermia. New England Journal of Medicine, No. 336, Vol. 24, pp. 1730-1737.
- National Institute of Clinical Guidance – Clinical Guideline 65 – Inadvertent perioperative hypothermia –The management of inadvert perioperative hypothermia in adults
- Horn, E.P. Bein, M.D. (2011), Prophylaxis of Perioperative Hypothermia in Patients undergoing general anaesthesia by short time pre-warming. Anaesthesiology.
- Kurz A, Sessler DI, Lenhardt R. Perioperative normothermia to reduce the incidence of surgical-wound infection and shorten hospitalization. Study of Wound Infection and Temperature Group. N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 1209-1215 Flores-Maldonado A, Medina-Escobedo CE, Rios-Rodriguez HM, Fernandez-Dominguez (2001) Mild perioperative hypothermia and the risk of wound infection. Arch Med Res 32:227-23
- Tülsner, J. Zentrale Aufnahme/Zentrum, für ambulante und Kurzzeitchirurgie, Ruppiner Kliniken GmbH, Neuruppium. Case report, 2010, Arizant Healthcare Inc.
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