3M™ Bair Hugger™ Small Lower Body Blanket, Model 537
- Part Number 53700N
- 3M ID 7100212594
- UPC 00707387790110
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Highlights
- Single-use lower-body forced-air warming blanket with excellent heat transfer
- Can also be used as a full-body warming blanket on smaller patients
- Consists of a soft, comfortable, lightweight material
- Perforations across the blanket provide uniform convective warming
- Helps maintain normothermia, which has been shown to reduce the risk of complications such as surgical site infection (SSI)(1,2)
- Foot drape minimises risk of thermal injury to the feet and lower leg area
- To provide safe, effective and consistent forced-air warming for your patients, use the 3M™ Bair Hugger™ Small Lower Body Warming Blanket, 53700 with the 3M™ Bair Hugger™ Warming Unit 675 or 775
The 3M™ Bair Hugger™ Small Lower Body Warming Blanket, 53700 is a single-use lower-body forced-air warming blanket that helps prevent hypothermia and maintain normothermia in children or small adult patients undergoing upper-body surgery, which has been shown to reduce the risk of surgical site infection (SSI)(1,2). Developed for smaller patients, it can be used in the supine, lateral or prone positions.
The 3M™ Bair Hugger™ Small Lower Body Warming Blanket, 53700 consists of a soft, comfortable, lightweight, material with perforations across the blanket to provide uniform convective warming for your patients.
Suggested applications
- 3M™ Bair Hugger™ Temperature Management Solutions are indicated for hypothermic patients or normothermic patients for whom induced hypothermia or localized temperature therapy is clinically indicated. In addition, the solutions can be used to provide patient thermal comfort when conditions exist that may cause patients to become too warm or too cold. The temperature management systems can be used with adult and pediatric patients. Bair Hugger Temperature Management Solutions should only be used by trained medical professionals
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1. Kurz A, Sessler DI, Lenhardt R. Perioperative normothermia to reduce the incidence of surgical-wound infection and shorten hospitalization. N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 1209–1215. 2. Melling AC, Ali B, Scott EM, Leaper DJ. Effects of preoperative warming on the incidence of wound infection after clean surgery: a randomised controlled trial.Lancet2001; 358: 876–880.
